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Living World

Dive The Gut

Twenty-five metres beneath the surface, in water barely 12ºC, golden zooanthids thrive amongst red coral in The Gut, a narrow...

Geography

Shower in a waterfall

Brace yourself on the bow of MV Flightless and plunge under the spell of a waterfall in Doubtful Sound. With...

Society

Go wreck diving

The steamer Waikare was wrecked on January 4, 1910, in Dusky Sound when on her annual excursion to the West...

Living World

Visit The Bat Cave

The Fiordland crested penguin, or Tawaki, is unusual among penguins—it lives in a rainforest, sometimes deep in caves beneath trees,...

Society

Ride in the crow’s nest

The radar tower affords a dramatic view as MV Flightless leaves the narrow entrance Pickersgill Harbour and makes for the...

Geography

Paddle the fiords

The mountainous remains of the Southern Alps tower a thousand metres over Vancouver Arm in Breaksea Sound. It’s hundreds of...

Geography

Fly to the hills

Māori describe how the demi-god Tu-te-raki-whanoa shaped Fiordland with an adze, carving out the steep-sided mountains and profound fiords with...

Living World

Bow-ride with dolphins

Bottlenose dolphins are attracted to passing vessels, hitching a ride here on MV Flightless as she steams up the inlet....

Living World

Consider the crayfish

These crayfish in holding pots at Sunday Cove, Breaksea Sound, awaiting the arrival of a helicopter that will whip them...

Society

Counting crays

Peter Young has been crayfishing the Fiordland coast for decades, throwing those that are undersize or ‘in berry’ back, retaining...
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