We spent about an hour round trip to hike to the falls. The hike was pretty straightforward for the most part. It started off by hiking along some road before veering into the bush full of native growth forest. The forest canopy was welcome as we were kept relatively dry even though the rains came and went intermittently.

Towards the end of the hike, there was an interestingly long swinging bridge that could only take one tramper at a time. This meant we were in a small queue in order to wait for our turn, but I could totally imagine how this wait could be rather long on a busier day (like if it wasn't raining on a weekend or something like that).

Once we were at the end of the track, we had to scramble a little to get better views of the falls. But there were some young folks who threw caution to the wind and swam in the cold plunge pool eventually scrambling to the back of the falls.

Directions: From Takaka, we left SH60 and headed east on Motupipi St which became Abel Tasman Dr. We drove roughly 20km from SH60 to the well-signposted turnoff for Wainui Falls to our right. At the end of the short spur road there was a large car park just before a cattle guard.