Park
Shakespear Regional Park
1507 Whangaparaoa Road, Army Bay, Auckland 0930
Pest-free coastal sanctuary of farmland and bush where kiwi call again after a century of silence.
This guide to Shakespear Regional Park on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula traces the Shakespear family's farm, established in 1883 on land once held by Ngati Kahu, whose pa earthworks still shape the grassy rises near the water. It follows the 1967 sale to the public and the fence built across the peninsula in 2011 to seal off the tip from predators. Listen near dusk, close to the fence line, for what conservationists brought back inside it.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.