A perfect week in Westland Tai Poutini National Park

February 2017

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February 2017

On the traverse above the Douglas River. Horace Waker Hut is on the river flats near the tip of the moraine crescent. Photo: Mark Watson
Neil Silverwood climbs mountains and explores a wild coastline while exploring one of our most diverse outdoor playgrounds Westland Tai Poutini National Park is an oddity. Many of our national parks have a clear boundary where human development ends and wild spaces begin, but Westland Tai Poutini is smack in the middle of the largest […]
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