The Manukau Heads Lighthouse Trust is a non-profit organisation dependent on donations. Please consider making a donation of whatever you can to protect and sustain our beautiful lighthouse. CLICK HERE TO DONATE NOW 
The Manukau Heads Lighthouse Trust is a non-profit organisation dependent on donations. Please consider making a donation of whatever you can to protect and sustain our beautiful lighthouse. CLICK HERE TO DONATE NOW
ENGAGE THE SENSES
ENGAGE THE SENSES
ENGAGE THE SENSES
Update: OH no!
The road access has been slipped away by a massive slip!
The lighthouse is closed! :(
Update: Its looking like the road should be repaired by Xmas 2024!
Update 2: OK, not xmas, but by February is the latest info we have!
Each year around 60,000 visitors are drawn to our stunning site to take a tactile tour of the lighthouse, absorb the magnificent panorama, and take a walk through time with the tragic tale of the HMS Orpheus - New Zealand’s worst shipwreck disaster.
The well preserved prisms of our third order dioptric drum lens. A rare opportunity to view one close-up.
The Awhitu Peninsula and neighbouring township of Waiuku provide an abundant variety of attractions for visitors looking to ‘engage the senses’.
