Here’s 21 family holiday ideas from the Cape to the Catlins…
Here’s 21 family holiday ideas from the Cape to the Catlins…
1
Make a day trip to Cape Reinga to see the gnarly pohutukawa and the meeting of the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea
2
Learn about our country’s founding document at Waitangi
3
Grab an old boogie-board and surf the sand dunes at Te Paki or Opononi Beach
4
Ride the ferry between and downtown Auckland and Devonport and explore North Head’s old military tunnels
5
Check out the fossilised Ihumatao kauri remains on the shore of the Manukau Harbour
6
Ride the thrilling line at the Coromandel’s Driving Creek Potteries railway
7
Take your torch to the old Broken Hills gold mines near Pauanui
8
Have a hot soak in the Waikato’s quaint Edwardian spa town Te Aroha
9
Swim with the fish at Te Tapuwae O Rongakako Marine Reserve
10
Walk the winding track from Taupo’s Spa Road to the Huka falls. Watch the rushing water when the Aratiatia Dam’s control gates are open
11
Ride Whanganui’s historic Durie Hill Elevator – built in 1919, it’s the country’s only earth-bound elevator
12
Visit the Te Apiti Windfarm near Ashurst and have a picnic among hundreds of daffodils in Manawatu’s Mount Lee Bush Reserve
13
Leave your car behind and take the train to the Wairarapa to check out the kiwis at Mount Bruce Wildlife Encounters
14
Mountain bike over Wellington’s Rimutaka Rail Trail
15
See some of the clearest water in the world at Nelson’s Te Waikoropupa Springs and hand feed Anatoki eels near Takaka
16
Check out the pink salt beds at Lake Grassmere
17
Do the coastal walk out to Kaikoura’s seal colony and watch them sunbathe on the warm rocks
18
Cross the swing bridge over Ashburton’s Bowyers Stream and take a dip at the twin falls
19
Check out the diving ducks at Queenstown’s Underwater World and visit the vintage TSS Earnslaw
20
Visit the Royal Albatross Centre at Taiaroa Head and the Blue Penguin Colony in Oamaru
21
Go horse riding in Southland’s Catlins and check out the ancient fossils at Curio Bay
