Stunning private farmland will open up for happy wanderers keen to raise funds and traverse some champagne coastland in Ōmakere this month.
Gates in the scenic Central Hawke’s Bay district will be unlatched for Ōmakere School’s annual Coastal Hill Country Walk - a 17-kilometre loop that starts and finishes at the historic Blackhead Station woolshed on October 28.
Ōmakere School and Community Association president Estelle Humphries said it was a great way to experience some amazing vistas - and some rural hospitality.
“Each year is a new track. This course, we’ll start from Blackhead Beach and weave our way across and up to some stunning skyline coastal views,” she said. “We’ll also have marshals on horses on the trail, which will be fantastic.”