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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Kiwiboomers!
If you haven’t heard about it, you might like to check out this great website – full of what the 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70 somethings are up to in New Zealand! Lynn Clayton joined us here in Okarito and wrote this article about her experiences – enjoy her writing and stunning photographs. Okarito Wharf [...]
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 [...]
