This area is both extremely scenic, and has very interesting coastal volcanic features. The best known is Cathedral Cove, north of Hahei. There a magnificent arch through the headland connects two white sand beaches. The main one is especially large and impressive. There is also a collapsed blowhole at Blowhole Bay.
Access is normally by boat.
Of particular interest is the spectacular vertical columns of basalt that form Motutu Point. There is a large sea cave and a small blow hole in the columnar formation. This is an interesting location, at the northern end of the Coromandel Peninsula, opening on the Colville Channel, with views over Great Barrier Island and Channel island. Sugarloaf is a small volcanic enclave at the edge of greywacke formations. It is thought to be the remnant of the oldest volcano in the Coromandel Peninsula,that occupied the whole Fletcher Bay area 18 million years ago.