|
Price |
Departure |
Duration |
Lunch |
Walking |
| $320/person |
7:30am |
10.5 hours approx
|
Included
|
Easy |
Highlights
- View 'Lord of the Rings' style rock formations of the Takaka Hill. Breathtaking views of the
Abel Tasman and Kahurangi National Parks.
- Stroll Puponga Farm Park, see ancient dune lakes and re-vegetation coastal forest with a
unique variety of plant species.
- Visit the dramatic Wharariki beach, full of caves, arches, bold cliffs, stacks and hopefully
playful seal pups.
- Walk in the Kaituna Valley visiting an old goldfield.
- Lunch at The Naked Possum bush cafe.
Tour Overview
Travel through the wine and food basket area of the Waimea Plains and the historic Moutere region
before driving up Takaka Hill and taking a short walk through ancient rock formations and unique
forest to the first breathtaking viewpoints overlooking Motueka, Waimea, Tasman Bay, Nelson and the
Mount Richmond Forest Park.
Within a short distance enjoy the stunning views of both Abel Tasman, Kahurangi National Parks and
Golden Bay from ‘Marble Mountain’ from one of the highest roads in New Zealand, and its amazing
rock formations. Descend into Golden Bay and the township of Takaka.
After morning refreshments and a few stories drive past the historic town of Collingwood and many
sheltered coastal inlets alive with bird life, past some of the richest pastoral areas with a
backdrop of forest and strange shaped rock and mountain formations.
View the famed Farewell Spit Nature Reserve, home in summer to around 140,000 migratory birds that
flies in from Siberia and Alaska as part of the East Asian Australasian fly-way.
Stroll through Puponga Farm Park, a working farm, with its weather formed shapes in land and plants
and past ancient dune lakes and into protected, regenerating coastal forest with a unique variation
of plant species.
With the ever increasing wave pounding noise suddenly burst out onto the dramatically wild
Wharariki beach with caves, rock arches, bold cliffs, islands and dramatic stacks alive with
thriving wildlife. Return along the beautiful windswept, ever changing white sandy beach with a
chance of spotting playful seal pups.
Head back towards Collingwood before turning off into a completely contrasting scene of the
beautiful forests of the Kaituna Valley.
Enjoy refreshments at the ‘Naked Possum’ a licensed bush café, chat with the locals, check out the
unique possum skin products and souvenirs before taking a short walk into the bush to an old
goldfield sitting amongst Nikau Palms and giant Rata trees and marvel at the health of both the
bush and bird life after intensive possum control.
Map of area
