We had an awesome week in Golden Bay and we managed to stay offline for a full 7 days! We didn’t even turn on the…

Funny name for a bunch of houses along the road between Farewell spit and Collingwood. And a good spot to view all sorts of sea…

A short 30 min walk up to the lighthouse between Cape Farewell and the start of the Farewell sandspit.

A very nice early morning walk through multiple sheep paddocks with many many baby sheep at this time of the year. Next stop on the…

What to do on a rainy day? Check for museums! (As museums are usually really worth visiting in NZ.) We didn’t arrive with high expectations on that…

The Whanganui inlet is the northernmost large inlet on the west coast of the south island. A beautiful landscape but only to be accessed via…

If you turn right at the Whanganui inlet, the gravel road ends at the Kaituna lakes. A picturesque secluded spot of native forest in the…

Just driving around randomly to explore the area around Collingwood. After some kilometers of gravel road we ended up at the east-entry of the Heaphy…

Farewell Spit is a narrow 26 km long sand spit at the northern end of Golden Bay. The first few kilometers can be publicly accessed.…

We have booked a Farewell Spit bus tour for the afternoon, so we used the waiting time to explore the tiny town of Collingwood. It mainly consists…