Stewart Island, Bluff, Foveaux Strait (10 pages)
We went to Stewart Island off the far south coast of South Island. The journey is across the fearsome Foveaux Strait.
I'm still working on this section. There are now nine pages. The first three of these are not strictly speaking about Stewart Island. But more about getting there from Dunedin.
The drive from Dunedin to Bluff - the ferry port for Stewart Island
Our brief sojourn in the fascinating port town of Bluff that reminded me so much of Penzance/Newlyn in Cornwall in the UK.
Photos of the Foveaux Strait crossings we made. They say its an hour of hell or twenty minutes of terror dependent on your mode of transport. We went with the ferry - hell, so to speak - but we were just so lucky with the weather.
Our trip to the beautiful bird sanctuary of Ulva Island (photos only so far)
Our walks out on Ackers Point through fascinating bush in search of the Sooty Shearwaters and Blue Penguins (merging this and the page below)
Our search for Blue Penguins and Sooty Shearwaters (photos and text)
Our brief foray out on the beginning of the Rakiura Track
A bit of a rag bag of other Stewart Island photos
And the last page is the beginning of a page on the whole predator poisoning issue in New Zealand - with airdrops of 1080 poison.
There are some other pages that touch on Stewart Island - see
