Shakespear Park, New Zealand

Shakespear Park Photos

The 376 ha (929 acre) park is managed by the Auckland Regional Council. A park ranger information office is located at the western end of Te Haruhi Bay. Popular activities at the park are swimming, bush walking, bird watching, lookout walking, mountain biking, boating, fishing, and windsurfing.

There are plenty of grassy picnic places under the pohutukawa trees that fringe the beach at Te Haruhi Bay. Peacocks that live among the trees often entertain visitors with their colourful displays.

A Te Haruhi Bay peacock patrolling the beach

View west along Te Haruhi Bay beach to the western cliffs of the bay, then left to the trees on the Gulf Harbour golf course, and beyond the track marker post are the cliffs of Long Bay in the far distance

The Shakespear Regional Park camping area at the eastern end of Te Haruhi Bay

View across Te Haruhi Bay to the southeastern tip of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, and in the right background to Rakino and Waiheke islands

Looking across Whangaparaoa Passage to Tiritiri Matangi Island from a cliff top on the eastern tip of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula.
The Moehau Range on the Coromandel Peninsula is in the left distance.

Shakespear Park view southwest over Te Haruhi Bay from a Park Lookout Platform

The Shakespear Park Heritage Trail near a big old puriri tree

A bush walking track footbridge over a Shakespear Park stream on the Heritage Trail

Cattle grazing on Shakespear Park high ground