Mangawhai, Pacific View

14/10/2024

Pacific view is now running under Airbnb under the name Little Bali Mangawhai Heads or phone direct Roger 021945457 Whats App 6421945457 New Zealand or [email protected]

03/06/2024

Kings Birthday Sunrise taken 10 minutes apart

28/05/2023

28/05/2022

08/06/2020

The many moods of Pacific veiw sunrises

02/04/2020

Our history

SNIPPETS OF HISTORY
Photo of the Wintle baches (right), and their care-takers bach 2nd left. Aunty Lottie’s bach under tree (left) at Mangawai Heads (officially named Molesworth).
Mangawai was spelt that way until 1951, when it was corrected to Mangawhai.
There was no road access to ‘the Heads’ and very few residents lived in the vicinity by the 1940s. The only way to get there was by boat, or as locals knew, they had to travel across paddocks on Cullen’s farm to get down to the beach from Cove Road.
The Alfred Wharfe family owned Bream Tail farm, and Iva Wharfe’s family had a house at the beach. Hastie’s owned a farm (now named ‘The Sanctuary,) and the King family were in the King Road district. There were a few other families situated on smaller lots dotted about the Heads area, including the Francis, Moir, P**i Smith’s, Stevenson’s, Witsitts, Burnham, Woods, Hunters, Watts, and our famous squatter George Merz.
The Ryan family had built two, 2 bedroomed baches at the Heads, where the Council camping grounds are now located. In the early 1900s the Wintle family purchased the holding, but they didn’t live there, as their houses were at the Tara. Families that lived in the outer areas of Mangawai made great use of the baches during school holidays. Other little cottages were also put in place including an army hut after WWII, and a well known lady, Aunty Lottie Powell, built her bach from timber that came from the North Albertland Hall, (previously situated on the Mangawhai/Te Hana Road.)
During the May school holidays there was a standing order by those who required a bach for the holidays, with the same families congregating each year to share two weeks of fun and fishing during the ‘dry season’ for milkers and their cows. Summer holidays saw others taking advantage of the beach accommodation.
It wasn’t until the mid 1950s that development began at the Heads and a road created to open the way to the coastal beach, with a subdivision of Wintle land which brought a few more folk to the seaside location.
[Bev Ross]

07/03/2020

And the summer of 2020 continues at Pacific View Lodge and Little Bali !

02/10/2019

Mangawhai for all to enjoy love you

26/09/2019

Home sweet home

Dolphins cause a spectacle for holiday makers in the Bay of Islands.