We drove to Whangarei (pronounced Fangarei.) It is a small town with a harbor on the river. We visited small shops and enjoyed ice cream. We hiked around Whangarei falls and watched children jumping in the river from a tree rope. We then went to our hotel in Tutukaka. This is a small village supported almost totally by its harbor and scuba divers who dive the two shipwrecks and the area and the Poor Knights Islands.