SOUTHERN SCENIC ROUTE The beauty of the Southern Scenic Route is best enjoyed at a leisurely pace, with frequent breaks, short walks and overnight stays along the way. The following are estimated driving times only. Motorists not familiar with country or unsealed roads are advised to allow additional travelling time. Cyclists should be prepared for frequent and substantial hill climbs at all stages, and slower times on unsealed roads. Distance Driving Times Protect plants and animals ‘DON’T MISS. .’ Te Anau - Milford Sound 119 km 74 miles 2 hr 20mins Remove rubbish Te Anau - Tuatapere 82 km 51 miles 1hr 30mins ● Dunedin’s architectural grandeur and the natural wonders ● The legendary glow worm caves in Te Anau, the gateway Bury toilet waste Tuatapere - Riverton 48 km 30 miles 50 mins of Otago Peninsula to beautiful Fiordland World Heritage Area Keep streams and lakes clean Riverton - Invercargill 38 km 24 miles 40 mins ● Tunnel Beach with its striking sandstone sea cliffs, arches ● A boat cruise on the majestic Milford Sound past Mitre Take care with fires Invercargill - Waikawa 83 km 52 miles 1 hr 45 mins Waikawa - Papatowai 46 km (unsealed 22.5kms)29 miles 1 hr and caves Peak and Bowen Falls Camp carefully Keep to the track Papatowai - Owaka 26 km 16 miles 45 mins ● Owaka - Balclutha 32 km 20 miles 35 mins Sinclair Wetlands, home to some of New Zealand’s rarest Consider others birds Balclutha - Taieri Mouth 50 km (unsealed 9kms) 31 miles 1hr Respect our cultural heritage* ‘DID YOU KNOW THAT. .’ Taieri Mouth - Dunedin 35 km 22 miles 45 mins ● Nugget Point, spectacular coastal views and yellow eyed Enjoy your visit 440 km 273 miles ™ penguin viewing from the hide at Roaring Bay ● Coastal scene, Catlins The Southern Scenic Route is the first touring route in Toitu te whenua (Leave the land undisturbed) Please travel safely and with care. ● New Zealand *Ngai Tahu are the tangata whenua (people of the land) of www.southernscenicroute.co.nz Cannibal Bay & Surat Bay watch New Zealand (Hooker) the areas traversed by the Southern Scenic Route. Travellers are For further information sea lions ● encouraged to read the Department of Conservation information Yellow-eyed penguins on the Southern Scenic Route: Riverton (Jacob’s River) – is one of the earliest European panels in the areas they visit and seek out information on the ● Purakaunui Falls, one of the most photographed falls in settlements in NZ Ngai Tahu traditions associated with the sites along the way. Telephone:0800SCENIC New Zealand ● Curio Bay’s Petrified Forest is 180 million years old WILDLIFE CARE CODE Telephone0800 723 642 Telephone+64 3 214 9733 ● Lake Wilkie, an amazing unique succession of forest ● The Tunnel Beach stairway was built in the 1870’s by John “Love them from a distance Facsimile+64 3 218 9460 or lose them forever” development Cargill for his family to go swimming and picnicking. email: [email protected] Hectors dolphins/Papakanua ● Cathedral Caves, spectacular beach walk and cave access ● Southland has the longest daylight hours in New Zealand http://www.southernscenicroute.co.nz at low tide Might be seen along the Catlins Coast, ● Within Southland is New Zealand’s third island – Stewart Porpoise Bay or in Te Wae Wae Bay. Southern Scenic Route PO Box 903, Invercargill ● Curio Bay with one of the most extensive examples of a Island (Rakiura National Park) To avoid disturbing these dolphins it is Jurassic fossilised forest best to watch them from the shore. NEW ZEALAND ● Ancient Podocarp forests still exist in South Fiordland Yellow-eyed penguins/Hoiho ● Slope Point, the southern-most point of the South Island For information on accommodation and attractions: ● The Percy Burn Viaduct (near Tuatapere) is believed to be Best seen from the viewing hide at ● Waipapa Point is the scene of New Zealand’s worst civilian the largest wooden rail viaduct remaining in the world Roaring Bay and at the Nuggets/Tokata. shipping disaster Never approach a penguin, they are shy ● The Southland Museum and Art Gallery’s ‘Tuatarium’ is and sensitive birds. ● Invercargill’s ‘live’ Tuatara display at the Southland Museum Fiordland Visitor Clutha Information Centre home to over 50 live tuatara ranging from baby tuatara If you think a penguin has seen you, Information Centre please leave the area. 4 Clyde Street & Art Gallery to those over 100 years old Lake Front Drive BALCLUTHA ● Don’t take your dog near penguins. TE ANAU Telephone +64 3 418 0388 The picturesque fishing village of Riverton Dogs kill penguins. Telephone +64 3 249 8900 [email protected] ● Colac Bay with a long history of Maori occupation [email protected] New Zealand sea lions/Rapoka Dunedin Visitor Centre ● McCracken’s Rest with occasional viewing of Hector’s New Zealand fur seals/Kekeno Fiordland National Park 48 The Octagon dolphin Best seen at Cannibal Bay and Surat Bay. Hectors Dolphin Visitor Centre DUNEDIN Department of Conservation Telephone +64 3 474 3300 ● Never go between them and the sea. Tuatapere Hump Ridge Track and the Bushman’s Museum The sea is their escape route. Lake Front Drive [email protected] TE ANAU ● Borland Nature Walk with magnificent displays Never go closer than 20 metres. Telephone +64 3 249 7924 The Southern Scenic Route on NZ forest life Male New Zealand sea lions may be [email protected] is a joint project supported by aggressive during the breeding season (summer). Be careful! Invercargill Visitor Information Clutha District Council Keep your dog on a leash. Centre Tourism Dunedin Southland Museum & Art Gallery Victoria Avenue, Queens Park Tourism Southland Dolphins, seals, sea lions and (Part of Venture Southland) penguins are fully protected INVERCARGILL under New Zealand law. Telephone +64 3 214 6243 Thanks to the Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu and the It is illegal to disturb them. New Zealand sea lion [email protected] Department of Conservation for their assistance. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER Every attempt has been made to ensure that the information contained within this brochure is correct at the time SOUTH ISLAND of printing. Clutha District Council, Tourism Southland and Tourism Dunedin expressly disclaim liability to any entity for any loss, cost or damage whatsoever arising out of or connected with the contents of this brochure. All material is subject to copyright. NEW ZEALAND Tautuku Beach, Catlins September 2001 Nugget Point Lighthouse op of the Tuatapere Hump Ridge Track. Photography by Sonya Crook Sonya by Photography Track. Ridge Hump Tuatapere the of op T Sinclair Wetlands Sinclair Macrocarpas, The Catlins The Macrocarpas, ol. 20, no. 4: December 1966) December 4: no. 20, ol. V , Landfall ( New Zealand’s foremost twentieth century painter. century twentieth foremost Zealand’s New Colin McCahon (1919–1987). McCahon Colin splendour, order and peace.” and order splendour, the flat land, there was a landscape of landscape a was there land, flat the which rose up distantly across the plain from plain the across distantly up rose which “Big hills stood in front of little hills, little of front in stood hills “Big MILFORD SOUND 1 /PIOPIOTAHI 21. Slope Point KEY The southern-most point of the South 2 TE ANAU Island. 3 OCTAGON STUART ST. Southern Scenic Route 22. Waipohatu LAKE 30 min walking track and picnic area DUNEDIN MANAPOURI AUCKLAND Other Routes on conservation land on the edge of the SH 1 THE KEY NEW Waikawa forest. Podocarp forest noted 4 MANAPOURI ZEALAND Camp Sites for its ferns and logging remnants. CAVERSHAM VALLEY RD. SOUTHERN Picnic Sites 23. Curio Bay MOTORWAY One of the world’s most extensive and Robbie Burns and St Pauls Cathedral, Dunedin 5 Accommodation least disturbed examples of a Jurassic RISELAW RD. SOUTH ROAD MOSSBURN fossilised forest. Best viewed at low WELLINGTON Petrol tide. SH 1 6 LUMSDEN DUNEDIN LAWRENCE 24. McLean Falls CORSTOPHINE RD. Forest walk to spectacular waterfall. 40 CHRISTCHURCH ™ minutes return. Travel 6 km up Rewcastle 46 Road. MIDDLETON RD. LAKE TE ANAU OCEAN VIEW DUNEDIN 25. Cathedral Caves MONOWAI BRIGHTON SOUTHERN SCENIC ROUTE BALCLUTHA Bush and beach walk to spectacular VIA BRIGHTON BLACKKHEAD RD. OHAI INVERCARGILLL THE CATLINS WAIHOLA 45 caves accessible only at low tide. 80 NIGHTCAPS 44 minutes return. There is a small toll LAKE 7 fee for access to this attraction. HAUROKO TAIERI MOUTH 9 29. Picnic Point 8 26. Traills Tractor Historic MILTON41 Bush and a sandy coastline with rock CLIFDEN Walk pools provide variety on this easy walk. 43 This 10 minute walk, rich in early GORE 18. Thornbury 40 minutes return. Suitable for all age 42 Catlins timber milling history, travels Tunnel Beach, Dunedin WINTON Vintage farm machinery museum. groups. 10 40 TOKO MOUTH to Cook’s old mill site and a restored TUATAPERE ‘Traills Tractor’ logging machine. Walk BALCLUTHA starts from Fleming River Bridge. 30. Old Coach Track/Tahakopa 40. Naish Park/Blair Athol 11 19. Bluff 33. Catlins River Walk Bluff Hill/Motu Pohue- Lookout. Said to Loop Track Tramp between Tawanui camping area to Walkway OTAUTAU An easy walk along the bank of the be the burial place of two prominent 27. Lake Wilkie Coastal podocarp forest fringing a Franks Creek, Wallis Stream and onto the 12 KAITANGATA Kati Mamoe chiefs. Coastal and forest sandy bay. Walk along the Old Coach Wisp roadend, through beautiful beech Clutha River to the Blair Athol Farm. This walk shows the unique succession Road to a moa hunter camp at the 2 hours return. TE WAE 18 EDENDALE walks at Stirling Point. Displays on coastal of forest development from lake edge forest. Views of exotic pine plantations, and historical features. At Bluff, the river mouth. 40 minutes return.