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Bacon Track – Harbour Cone – Otago Region – NEW ZEALAND

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Monday 9/03/2026   Hereweka Harbour Cone Track – Bacon Track – Smiths Creek – Hereweka / Harbour Cone (315m) – Coffee Rock – Highcliff Road

                                      Hereweka / Harbour Cone – Bacon Track – Smiths Creek Circuit

                                      Hereweka / Harbour Cone Reserve, Otago Peninsula

                                      Otago Region, NEW ZEALAND (Aotearoa)
                                      Ōtākou (Kāi Tahu / Kāi Tahu ki Ōtākou people)

Participants: Beth Davies, Lauren Davies, Stephen Davies (Photos), Sue Davies (Report), Pablo Ureña Vega

We drove to the end of Bacon Street in Broad Bay, where the Bacon Track starts from a quiet residential road and heads up through farm paddocks towards the 315-metre summit of Hereweka / Harbour Cone. The weather was perfect — clear skies, a light breeze off Otago Harbour, and warm enough for short sleeves.

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Royal Albatross Centre – Harrington Point – Otago Region – NEW ZEALAND

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Sunday 8/03/2026   Harrington Point Road – Waiwhakaheke Seabird Lookout – Taiaroa Viewing Platform – Royal Albatross Centre

                                     Taiaroa Head Nature Reserve

                                     Harrington Point, Otago Region, NEW ZEALAND (Aotearoa)

                                     Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha country (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha people)                               

Participants: Beth Davies, Lauren Davies, Stephen Davies (Photos), Sue Davies (Report), Pablo Ureña Vega

We drove the length of Harrington Point Road to its end at Taiaroa Head, where the bitumen runs out at the Royal Albatross Centre car park and the open Pacific announces itself with a steady southerly push. A mild, partly cloudy late-summer day — around 17 degrees — made for comfortable walking.

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Harrington Point Cruise – Otago Region – NEW ZEALAND

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Monday 9/03/2026   Eden Wilderness Cruises Office Harbour – Te Rauone Beach – The Spit – Otekiho Beach – Pilots Beach – Taiaroa Head – South Pacific Ocean

                                       Taiaroa Head Nature Reserve, Harington Point

                                       Otago Region, NEW ZEALAND (Aotearoa)

                                       Otago Harbour – South Pacific Ocean

                                       Otago Region, NEW ZEALAND (Aotearoa)

                                       Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha country (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha people)                               

                                                                  

Participants: Beth Davies, Lauren Davies, Stephen Davies (Photos), Sue Davies (Report), Pablo Ureña Vega

We departed from the Eden Wildlife Cruises wharf on a calm, clear morning with a small swell and light winds — the harbour was smooth with just gentle ripples as we headed out past Te Rauone Beach. The sky was clearing from high cloud, and the light was already brightening nicely.

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Tunnel Beach Walk – Tunnel Beach – NEW ZEALAND

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Friday 6/03/2026   Tunnel Beach Car Park, Green Island Bush Road – Tunnel Beach Walk – Tunnel Beach – Tunnel (hand-carved, 1870s) – Natural Rock Arch – Clifftop Track – Forbury Head – Blowhole – Second Beach – Second Beach Track – St Clair Esplanade / St Clair Beach (Whakahekerau                                 

                                   Tunnel Beach Recreation Reserve (Doc) / South Dunedin Coastal Cliffs

                                   Otago Region, NEW ZEALAND (Aotearoa)

                                   Ngãi Tahu / Kãi Tahu Country (Ngãi Tahu / Kãi Tahu people)

                         

Participants: Beth Davies, Stephen Davies (Photos), Sue Davies (Report), Pablo Ureña Vega

From the gravel car park at the end of Green Island Bush Road — a clifftop paddock perched some 139 metres above the Southern Ocean — the Tunnel Beach Walk plunges immediately downhill on a well-formed, steep gravel single track. Five successive viewpoints, each a fenced clifftop “nest”, serve up progressively wider panoramas of sculpted sandstone headlands. Continue reading →

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