28 National park trips: national parks S-W

December 2012

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December 2012

Looking south down West Ruggedy Beach with the Ruggedy Mountains in the distance. Photo: Rob Brown
West Ruggedy Beach, Rakiura National Park In a country blessed with a fantastic diversity of coastline, it’s hard to think of a place with more wild beaches than Stewart Island. And no other track covers such a long stretch of New Zealand’s coastline than Stewart Island’s epic North-West Circuit. Around the half-way mark is East […]

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