Slowing down in the Catlins

June 2013

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June 2013

The Catlins Coastal Rainforest Park is home to the southern-most beech in New Zealand - and a host of other wonderful flora
A few days in the Catlins proves it’s how you journey through your destination that counts. Right on cue, the long dry summer came to an end. It wasn’t thunderous or biblical, just a persistent, drizzly, misty end to the golden weather. I’d raced the dark clouds along the gravel back roads between Owaka and […]
Alistair Hall

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