Not just home to New Zealand’s most famous public loos, Kawakawa has a working vintage steam train and glow-worm caves, among other attractions. Megan McChesney visits the Bay of Islands town that’s reinventing itself.
Dip over the hill into Pakiri and it’s like stepping back into “old New Zealand” – where community still means just that and kids run barefoot on family land passed down through the generations.