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one with private garden. It's worth including the lodge's huge continental breakfast
($12.50 per person) with freshly baked bread and homemade muesli. If you're lucky you
might spy a couple of resident sea lions lolling on the beach below you.
MOTEL $$
Nugget View & Kaka Point Motels
( 0800 525 278; www.catlins.co.nz ; 11 Rata St; d $95-200; ) A veritable minivillage of motel op-
tions ranging from good-value older units through to more modern ones with spa baths.
All except one have a sea-view verandah. The friendly owners also operate day tours of
the Catlins, and twilight tours ($30 per person) to view Nugget Point and the penguin
colony at Roaring Bay.
Point Café & Bar
(58 Esplanade; meals $13-30) Prop yourself at the driftwood bar for a cool beer, play pool or grab
a window seat for a sea view. Takeaways and ice creams are available at the attached store
- $10 will get you burger and a scoop of hokeypokey ice cream.
PUB $$
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Stewart Island/Rakiura
Travellers who undertake the short jaunt to Stewart Island/Rakiura will be rewarded with
a warm welcome from both the local kiwi and the local Kiwis. NZ's 'third' island is a
good place to spy the country's shy, feathered icon in the wild, and the close-knit commu-
nity of Stewart Islanders (population 381) are relaxed hosts. If you're staying on the island
for just a few days, don't be too surprised if most people quickly know who you are and
where you came from - especially if you mix and mingle over a beer at NZ's southern-
most pub, in the main settlement of Oban.
The island offers up plenty of active adventure including kayaking, and tramping the
Great Walk or other tramps in Rakiura National Park which makes up 85% of the land
area. As well as beautiful coastal and inland scenery, a major impetus for such excursions
is birdlife. Stewart Island/Rakiura is a bird sanctuary of international repute, and even the
most amateur of spotters will likely be distracted by the constant - and utterly glorious -
squawking, singing and flitting of feathery flocks.
 
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