Tautuku Estuary Walkway – Buy 

I arrived at the Tautuku Walkway late in the afternoon as the sun was dropping in the sky and the evening was drawing closer. A short 30 minute walk, the track began on an old sawmilling road and changed to a board-walk that led through podocarp forest and out on the estuary flats. I stood and took in the silence before heading back to the car. I was glad I’d stopped.

Tautuku beach at sunrise – Buy 

There really is something rather special about having a spectacular beach all to yourself at sunrise. While I was staying in the Catlins, one morning I headed out early to Tautuku Beach and spent the hours pre and post sunrise wandering up and down the beach which has a truly wild feel about it.