Shearwater Stewart Island

... if the opportunity arises, and spent the evening at the hostel so that we're up bright and early for our trip to Stewart Island tomorrow. Thursday 20th March This morning we woke up to the smell of freshly baked bread courtesy of the hostel.  ...

... on solid ground in Oban (the only town on the island) we walked all the way across town (about 500 meters) to Stewart Island Backpackers where the hostess seemed annoyed that we had even showed up. After getting settled in our room we packed ourselves a ...

... to disaster by the depth (max. 54m) monitor in the lounge.  The crossing itself was fine.  One booked into Stewart Island Backpackers Fabian, Ammar and myself walked out via Fuchsia Walk, Rarou Walk, Watercress Bay, Golden Bay, Deep Bay, across ...

... just so they couldn't get to us. At 4pm we got a lift back with Peter the water taxi guy and on the 7 mins ride across the water we got to see Blue Penguins playing. Stewart Island was great, it was a nice quiet and beautiful place to spend a few days.

   Half the group then got an early boat over to Stewart Island which of cause was very ruff leading to some very unwanted sea sickness for me surprise surprise. After dumping all of our things in the backpackers we then decided to do a ...