Dunedin to Catlins to Bluff

This is the view from the Florence Hill lookout across Tautuku Bay to the Tautuku Peninsula. Around the 1840s, there was a whaling station situated near the peninsula's neck as well as a port serving the flax, fishing and timber industries. When these industries declined, the port was closed. The whole valley behind Tautuku Bay is covered in native forest and out to sea if you are lucky (we weren't) you can spot Southern Right Whales. There are no roads out to the peninsula so the scattered holiday cottages are reached by four-wheel drive. We watched as a couple of 4WDs did rings on the beach below us.