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Travel Blogs from Curio Bay, New Zealand
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Jurassic Beach
This is a top pick! ... wooden building which creaked in the wind and looked straight out onto the sea. A short drive to a lookout gave us views over Curio Bay, where a yellow-eyed penguin was slowly making its way across the beach back to its nest, holding its wings out to dry ...
The Stewart Island debate
This is a top pick! ... excitement was over and the cyclists were on their way we found the library and started to read some blogs about Stewart Island, New Zealand’s third biggest island. We just couldn’t decide whether to go or not. Andrew was for it ...
March of the (Yellow Eyed) Penguins
This is a top pick! ... low tide would be and headed off to Waipapa Point. After about 30 minutes we got to the point, the site of one of New Zealand’s biggest passenger ferry disasters, the town had a population of about 4 people (Erica again argued why would we need to ...
Curious Curio Bay
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Round the Bottom Bit
Today i got on the bottom bus which is a part of kiwi experience to do the very south of the south island as i thought this would be easier and i wanted to know what the tour groups were like. There were about 10 of us on the bus which left dunedein in ...
Getting closer to the South Pole
... the highlight of our Southland touring. Before arriving at our final destination we encountered a few sea lions on a beach. We slept in Curio Bay, a very small and windy town far away from everything. We stayed in a very cosy hostel with a view of the ...
Sealions and Dolphins....ohhhhhhlalalalalala
Bottom Bus seems to be all about sitting on the bus and not seing a lot.. so apologies that these entries aren't very interesting! We did see a sea lion colony today.. we never realised that they are so massive and that they can move faster than an ...
As far South as possible...
... walk of the day was at Curio Bay, where we're spending the night. It's about 2km from the Southernmost point of mainland New Zealand, and probably the Southernmost place either of us will ever visit. Needless to say, it's a little nippy there! Our ...
Scenic lighthouse, sea lions and cute penguins
... was a good chance to spot some sea lions, which I had never seen in the wild either. Waipapa lighthouse is quite famous in New Zealand, unfortunately one has to say, because it was only built after a passenger ship sank at hidden cliffs out at sea killing ...
What a difference a day makes
... and we the entire second house for $120!!! Three bedrooms, a woodburning stove, a kitchen and it is right on the dunes of Curio Bay! What a difference from last night's $85 one room cabin with a walk to the bathroom. Once settled, we drove 1/2 ...
Hector dolphins, Yellow Eyed Penguins for NY 2010
... supplies we got back on the Southern Scenic Route and headed east. We drove right though to our camping spot at Porpoise Bay missing New Zealand's most southerly point. We booked into our campground at Curio Bay that was in a prime location on the ...
A dog, a joke and some flax
... met a very tiny dog (and its owner) - see pictures, it was a little bizzar. Eventually we arrived at Niagara Falls of New Zealand, which turned out to be a complex joke by the people of Niagara who had simply put up a sign by a babbling brook. ...
Sloping South
... equator and the South Pole. Crazy! A few obligatory photos later and we were back on the road. We arrived at our Curio Bay campsite a little before dinnertime. It was in a wonderful location, slap-bang on the coast, overlooking a massive semi-elliptical ...
Hanging with the Hookers - Catlins Coast Part Two
... our legs and water in our shoes. We’d made decent time so decided to keep on going along the coast to Curio Bay, the scene of a Petrified Forest which is an extremely rare natural phenomenon in which trees are destroyed yet through a bizarre set of ...
The Catlins
A nice little stop off at a wonderful hostel, with only 9 beds. Slight drawback as I froze to death in the night! :/ Saw some penguins, but missed the Hectors Dolphins. Some fab view on the way, including New Zealand's most southerly ...
Pertified Trees and Yellow Eyed Penguins
... . Tomorrow the bus should pick me up and take me on to Invercargill - another scottish town after that its onto Te Anau and then to Milford Sound for a few nights before heading back to Queenstown and up to Christchurch - 11 days left in New ...
Blown away
... those in taller campervans and transports. The ladies in Dunedin had raved about a place at the end of the Catlins Forest region called Curio Bay and its campground so we chose this spot as our ultimate end point for the day. En route we were treated to ...
The Catlins, Curio Bay and surfing with dolphins!
When the bus arrived at Curio Bay there was heavy rain and dark looming clouds, causing me to wonder why I had decided to stay here for 3 nights!! But the sky soon cleared in the evening and I took a walk down the beach and watch the ...
Invecargill to Curio Bay
The site we stayed at was quite remote, with the owners not having been there in weeks, we paid for our site in the honesty box. Our site was surrounded with flax which kept us warm (even though we could hear the ocean all night. ...
The Catlins
... a vegetação, por isso acabámos por ver bastantes (e tirar montes de fotos!), foi um espectáculo! O parque de caravanas de Curio Bay é bastante peculiar (infelismente não tirámos muitas fotos) e o que lhe falta em instalações é compensado pela ...
Focas, pinguinos y delfines
... enorme en la playa que solo tiene acceso por unas cuantas horas al dia cuando la marea esta baja. La ruta escenica nos llevo a Curio Bay donde encontramos un bonito y peculiar camping. Este tenia acceso a la playa, en la que habia una colonia de delfines ...
Lunch at Monkey Island
... we ate lunch and messed about on the beach for a couple of chilled hours (literally). We managed to bag a fantastic apartment at Curio Bay for "a song", which looked out over the ocean. The shore was literally 10 feet from our window - we decided that ...
Le paradis, c'est ici!
... partis Joey et moi pour Curio Bay avec un petit arrêt à Te Anau, car la seule compagnie d'autobus se rendant à Curio Bay debute sa route dans cette ville. Ce n'est tout de même pas un calvaire de faire un arrêt obligatoire ici. En ...
Critters in Curio Bay
... the cold and the Dutch girl that taps on van windows at midnight (more on that later). We didn't know what to expect in Curio Bay despite a bit of reading about the area. We had been told that Curio Bay campground was in between Porpoise Bay and Curio ...
Is there a mouse in the house?
... sea. After 8km of gravel road, we arrived with a rather dirty Horace at a private campsite perched on the cliffs between Porpoise and Curio Bay. Saved, for the meagre sum of a few dollars we found a little patch of grass for Horace, we parked up and we ...
The Catlins, the penguins, the dolphins...
... et une attraction peut-être?!?... une faune particulière?!? Fortrose, on entre dans "The Catlins" et nous décidons d'aller directement jusque Curio Bay, de planter la tente et de profiter de la belle fin de journée pour explorer Curio Bay et ...
The Catlins
Well, my time in the Catlins was very lonely, cold, and boring, but in a good sort of way. I was the only person at my hostel for two whole nights. And there was no TV, no internet, and no books. And not much to do around the place either. But it was ...
Driving NZ
... be in heaven). The South Island is covered with them. En route from Milford to Dundedin we stopped to look at a petrified forest at Curio Bay. Sorry but I could not see what all the fuss was about. However, I did get to see a penguin, which if you ...
The land of Penquins, Porpoise and Seals
... so most tend to remain hidden up on the land, as they can't get wet until they have a new set of feathers. New Zealand Sea Lions (Whakahoe) also frequent this area (they eat the penguins!), but were not evident to us, although some surfers on Porpoise Bay ...
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