Kaipupu Sanctuary

Away from the city and back to nature

Efficient water taxi service over to the nature reserve. However the helm could do with some lessons on how to moor up as he appeared to make a bit of a meal of it in both directions!! The reserve i...

Totally magical

We had the island completely to ourselves. So special going in the water taxi and then spotting some of New Zealand's native birds amongst the trees with beautiful views of the sea.

An array of birds

A very pleasant small island to walk around. It's a 10 minute ride by water taxi to the island and then about an hour to walk through the tree ferns and beech trees and manaku and tawa canapy trees. T...

A good walk but not to challenging

Seen half a dozen birds of different varieties Track is good however some areas are steep and somewhat slippery. caution required. Would recommend if you have 2.5hrs to spare and like hiking :)

Amazing volunteer project

Lovely walk, heaps of bird song and beautiful forest. Easy track to walk on, mostly not steep. Amazing that all of this has been achieved by volunteers! Look out for monthly specials by the boat oper...