Cape Foulwind Seal Colony
A short walk with spectacular ocean views, steeple rocks, and a large year-round fur seal colony. The viewpoint has a wooden deck that overlooks the Cape Foulwind seal colony on the rocks down below. If the wind is right, you will smell them before you see them. Some stories say that is the reason for the name, "Cape Foulwind". This waypoint is on the Cape Foulwind walk between the lighthouse and Tauranga Bay. Closest car park to the seal colony is at the Tauranga Bay end of the trail. (South end of the trail.) Note, if you are from a place like Santa Cruz, California, where seals are commonplace, the seals aren't much of an attraction, they are nowhere near as close to you as they are at the beaches and piers there, but the views on the walkway are beautiful.
