A walkway beginning at the lighthouse carpark traverses the rocky headland to Tauranga Bay and passes close by a colony of New Zealand fur seals.

[2] However, the current name, Cape Foulwind, was given by English explorer James Cook in 1770[3] after his ship Endeavour, was blown quite a distance offshore from this point.

[6] The cliffs of Cape Foulwind, along with the adjacent small offshore islands, serve as roosting and breeding grounds for various seabird species, such as Australasian gannets.

[7] In 1924, the Grey River Argus reported that the National Portland Cement Company was to be floated, to mine and process deposits of limestone and marl at Cape Foulwind.

[11] The plant, with an expected production capability of 120,000 tons per annum, was set to employ 200 workers and utilise 40,000 tonnes of Buller coal annually.

[17] A group of local residents appealed the decision of the hearings panel in the Environment Court, seeking lower noise level limits and more restrictions on operating hours.

[21] The Three Steeples and Black Reef are 28 rocky islets, rising to a bit over 20 m (66 ft) high, approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) north of Cape Foulwind.

[22] They are granite rocks,[23] named by Jules Dumont d'Urville as Les Trois Cloches on 12 January 1827[24] and depicted as Three Steeples on James Wyld's 1839 map.