Great Coast Road: roadtripping at its best

You may well not be aware of it, but we all own this beach. Well, kinda.

It’s a different world, Golden Bay.

A lot of folk hit Westport and then head south, where the dramatic destinations await: glaciers, mountains, that service station...

Welcome to New Zealand’s largest unmodified wetland, a natural home for waterbirds galore, who make more than a meal of...

Just a 5km drive west of Fox Glacier – look, you’re in the neighbourhood, you may as well – is...

Travel can be, well, strange, really, which is half the point.

You’re standing in a car park, holding in your hand the best sandwich ever: white bread, butter and a whitebait...

The sand is a colour you simply have never seen before. The water is so blue it doesn’t actually look real.

Just out of Tākaka, in gorgeous Golden Bay, on the way to Farewell Spit, lie the Te Waikoropupū Springs.