21st July Water Falls

From Invercargill we drive the scenic route through the Catlins via a number of spots.

Waipapa Point – we searched for sea lions, found a paupa shell for Maddy on the beach, checked out the lighthouse and Geoff played in the rock pools.

 

Slope Point – the most southerly point on the South Island. A 20 min walk across form land that we didn’t quite make!

Curio Bay – Fossilised trees from the Jurrasic period that can be accessed at low tide.

We kept driving and stopped at Florence Hill Lookout.

Then waterfalls galore in the podocarp forests. first Matai falls and Horseshoe Falls

Then onto Purakaunui falls which turns up a lot on New Zealand calendars.

From here we drove through the bush and onto our last stop for the day – Milburn Limeworks and the whale fossils.

Good view but the best fossils had been taken to other museums leaving only a few on display at the top of the hill (under cover of course).

 

Then onto Dunedin and a Chinese takeaway for tea at our final stopover.