Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Post office
(51 Don St;
8.30am-5.30pm Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm Sat)
Getting There & Away
AIR
Air New Zealand flights link Invercargill to Christchurch (one hour) and onward, several
times a day.
BUS
Buses leave from the Invercargill i-SITE, where you can also book your tickets. Travel
time to Dunedin is four hours, Te Anau three hours, Queenstown four hours, and Christ-
church 10 hours.
Christchurch via Gore.
and Christchurch via Gore.
Tracknet
(
0800 483 262;
www.tracknet.net
)
To Te Anau and Queenstown.
Getting Around
west of central Invercargill. The door-to-door
Airport Shuttle
( 03-214 3434)
costs $5
to $10 from the city centre to the airport; more for residential pick-up. By taxi it's around
$22; try
Blue Star Taxis
(
03-217 7777)
.
TOP OF CHAPTER
Bluff
POP 1791
Bluff is Invercargill's port, 27km south of the city. It's also home to NZ's only aluminum
smelter, but the main reason folk come here is to catch the ferry to Stewart Island/-
Rakiura or to pose for photos beside the
Stirling Point signpost
, which signifies that
you've reached the furthest southern reaches of NZ. Sorry to disappoint you, but you
haven't, for despite the oft-quoted phrase 'from Cape Reinga to Bluff' and the fact that
SH1 terminates at Stirling Point, the South Island's southernmost point is Slope Point in
