Kaolin Mine Whangarei Heads

Take a stroll along the beach at Breakaway Retreat

and see the Kaolin mine from the 1800's.

The steel posts are all that remains of the wharf where wooden

schooners once tied up too and transported the clay.

Steel railway tracks that once carried wagons.

The remains of the motor that once helped remove the clay


The clay face from where they mined from.

A Large Peace of Kaolin Clay