South Island Sights
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Nelson's sunny, leafy and low-rise city is likely to be encountered by many New Zealand tourists by virtue of its location at the north end of the South Island, near to Picton's ferry port to/from Wellington on the North Island. Ferries are frequent and take about 3 hours to shuttle across the Cook Strait with their huddled masses of tour buses, cars and bikes.
One of Nelson's beaches during a kite surfing competition.
Abel Tasman National Park
Nelson is the gateway to fabulous Abel Tasman National Park, a boating, kayaking and especially walking paradise on the north-west of New Zealand's South Island. The Abel Tasman Coast Track is justly famous for its long, luscious hiking. While further south on the west coast lie the...
...strangely eroded Punakaiki Rocks [aka Pancake Rocks].
On the opposite, north-east coast of the South Island...
Kaikoura, baby penguin.
...is the Kaikoura Peninsula, a marine and birdlife haven popular with tourists for whale watching, swimming with dolphins, viewing albatrosses, petrels and other seabirds, strolling around penguin colonies and...
...getting a whiff of Southern Fur Seals.
Further south Dunedin also offers plenty of wildlife experiences and...
And on a beach, far, far away, giant exploded footballs. Next, Franz Josef Galcier Pictures.
...then there are the peculiar Moeraki Boulders on the Otago coast in the south-east, not too far from Queenstown
New Zealand Pictures: Franz Josef Glacier | North Island
