The bay gets its unusual name from an entry in Cook’s logbook, where he wrote that the body of water was ‘doubtless a bay’. No shit, Cap’n. It’s a bloody big bay at that, with a string of pretty swimming beaches heading towards the Karikari Peninsula.
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The main centre, Mangonui (meaning ‘Big Shark’), retains a fishing-port feel, despite cafés and gift shops now infesting its well-labelled line of historical waterfront buildings. They were constructed in the days when Mangonui was a centre of the whaling industry (1792–1850) and exported flax, kauri wood and gum.
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