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Owaka is on the edge of the Catlins Forest Park and is about kms from Dunedin.
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We stopped in Milton en route - a small town which used to be a centre for pottery as well as farming. It is quite interesting and there were a lot of old photo albums which included coverage of the Royal Visit in when the Queen and Prince Philip stopped in the town. Next was Balclutha, where the road crosses the River Clutha, a large town with several possibilities for fuel and a New World supermarket.
Owaka: We had booked 3 nights at Pounawea which is on the coast about 6kms east of Owaka. Owaka has expanded as a tourist destination since we last visited with a useful new supermarket and an excellent museum, as well as fuel, pub and more coffee shops. The museum had many stories of the shipwrecks on the coast, with models and photographs of the ships and some items from those events. There was also information about the railway which passed through Owaka to Balclutha. Pounawea: We stayed at the camp site at Pounawea, which we had used before.
The first time we stayed in their original Bach or to be more correct a Crib on South Island. This one was built in and until recently had an original style Zip water heater. It has unfortunately now been done up, moved across the site onto wooden piles, and lost a lot of the character. We had rung ahead and booked a simple cabin but when we got there we were seduced by one of the larger Family Cabins which had a view over the estuary and found that we could sit and watch the bird life including several Royal Spoonbills. Since our previous visit the manager has constructed a row of individual waterfront cabins with decks which are very popular.
Purakaunui Falls: After unpacking there was plenty of time to go out and one of the famous features of the Catlins are the many superb waterfalls. The closest and best is Purakaunui Falls which rightly features in many postcards and calendars. Access is signposted from the Papatowai Highway about 6kms after the Catlins Lake. Here the gradient has an average of 1 in 40, which is one of the steepest in the South Island. The embankments and cuttings are very impressive although becoming well hidden as they become overgrown with trees and bushes. The Florence Hill Lookout gave a good view down of the golden sands of Tautuku Bay, and a glimpse of the spouting cave on Rainbow Island.
Lake Wilkie was just visible ahead and we walked to the first viewpoint but did not do the full walk around the lake.
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Lenz Reserve: The next stop was at the Lenz Reserve where there is a nature and tramway walk. The site celebrates the adaptation of the Fordson farm tractor for use on bush tramways by the sawmiller Frank Traills. There was also a typical engine stored under a shelter with a lot of interpretation boards.
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Leaving the main road as it continues inland there are several important destinations on the south coast. The first is Waikawa, a small place with an excellent museum sited in the Waikawa School which opened in and closed in There is also an associated St Mary's Anglican Church. The church was opened and dedicated in and much later the Anglican diocese decided to sell the church and the Waikawa Museum was gifted the building in It is now open as part of the Museum during normal opening times.
Inside it is in good condition and is well-looked after by the local community. When we previously stayed at the BBH opposite the ex-church was being leased as a cafe and it remained so until Curio Bay: The main reason for driving along this part of the south coast is to visit the petrified forest at Curio Bay, and then perhaps to continue to Slope Point, the southern-most part of the South Island, and finally the lighthouse at Waipapa Point.
This trip was only to Curio Bay; the other places were all visited on a previous visit to the Catlins. There is now a large car park at Curio Bay, and an adjacent camping ground with views onto Porpoise Bay. We walked up to the view down onto Porpoise Bay before retracing our steps to the petrified forest lookout and the steps down to walk among the petrified trees.
Part of the area is protected because of penguins but it is still possible to walk over the rest. We noticed the erosion since our previous visit, mainly the stumps of the old trees which have been worn away. The tide was slightly too high to really appreciate the extent of the area, but it had the advantage that there were fewer people.
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We guess it would get busier an hour later when the water had retreated further. Niagara Falls: The final place to visit on the way back to Owaka was Niagara Falls, just 3kms south of the main road towards Waikawa. While it is named after the famous Niagara Falls it is a very small but pretty waterfall. Nugget Point: Having completed a tour of the Catlins to the West it was time to head the other way with our main target being Nugget Point - a must in the Catlins.
The road was marked as unsealed in our Hema map but is sealed and except for one short length is wide. Although we were early the main car park was full so we drove back down to Roaring Bay and returned about m uphill to Nugget Point on foot. There is a lighthouse built in at the end, which is a good viewpoint - on the approach path we could see several colonies of seals below us with the pups gambolling in the rock pools. The area is covered in wildlife and we saw Royal Spoonbills in the distance and dozens of seal pups playing in the rock pools.
Unfortunately the scales are big at Nugget Point and the wildlife always seems beyond range of the cameras even on 40x zoom although it was very clear with binoculars. Roaring Bay has a hide for watching Yellow Penguins - this is the time of year when many are staying ashore for the moult and we were also a bit too early in the afternoon. So we did not see any, but have been lucky on our previous visit when one came ashore and we could watch it come up the sand then hop from rock to rock until it reached the edge of the foliage where it stopped for about ten minutes to preen.
On an earlier visit we saw several come ashore and also had the rare chance to watch some playing in the surf. After a short stop for biscuits at the beach at Tirohanga, curiosity led us to continue along the coast to Kaka Point but it was just a small village with a beach and no kakas. The railway tunnel is metres long; it is the southern most railway tunnel in New Zealand and building was begun in With the rest of the line, the tunnel closed in A torch is best to walk the full length, although the floor of the tunnel is reasonably flat. The brickwork is reminiscent of canal tunnels although the tunnel profile, with its sharper point in the middle, is unusual.
Surat Bay: On the way back we detoured to visit Surat Bay on the far side of the estuary opposite Pounawea. There are supposed to be New Zealand Sea Lions, also known as Hooker's Sea Lion's on the beach and on a previous visit we had seen the bulls fighting and jostling each other. The Sea Lions belong to the family of eared seals and the males can reach kg and 3 metres in length and are rare and endangered. It is a long bush walk from the car park to the ocean and other people returning from the beach reported that there were no sea lions today. This saved a disappointing long walk.
However we saw more Royal Spoonbills in the estuary and another group just outside our cabin. Invercargill: We set off early for Invercargill and only stopped for a couple of moments to take a picture of one of the famous blowholes on the coast - it was only from a distant car park but the fountains of water were very clear.
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It raining hard when we reached Invercargill. We stopped at the enormous Hammer Hardware in Dee Street, the famous Hayes shop which has the major collection of Burt Munro memorabilia. The previous week there had been the annual motorbike event and the shop seemed fuller than usual of old motorbikes, memorabilia and souvenirs. The shop always has a lot of useful and interesting hardware and we were able to buy bits to repair the handle of our Red Devil BBQ.