Summer this year was beautiful on the West Coast and we enjoyed one of the best seasons for birds in years. The native flax flowered profusely starting early in the spring and carried on for a good few months. Flax flowers provide birds with a bounty of nectar and the village and Okarito waterways were [...]
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Summertime and the living is…
spectacular! The West Coast has experienced some of the best weather the country has seen this summer – beautiful hot sunny days and star filled nights. The local campground has been humming along with happy campers enjoying life at the beach. We’ve had visitors on the boat tours from around the world, lots of New [...]
Okarito in December
It’s been an interesting spring and early summer in Okarito. In November the mouth of the lagoon blocked off from the sea – this is a natural occurence when the southerly sea swells drop huge amounts of sand and sediment across the mouth and there is not sufficient rainfall flowing out from the lagoon. It [...]
Godwits return to Okarito
Although we had heard of godwits returning to Christchurch a few weeks ago, we hadn’t seen them yet on the Lagoon, until last week. A large grouping of them swooped overhead and landed on the flats nearby – good to see them back!
News from Okarito
Okarito Lagoon has had very high water levels due to the heavy rainfalls received last week. Lake Mapourika near Franz Josef Glacier flows into the Okarito River. On our two hour nature tours you travel up this river into the rainforest. It is also the main outflow of the lagoon, carving a deep channel through the lagoon [...]
