After St Arnaud, I went up to Golden Bay, to a place called Rock and Rata, near Clifton, near Takaka. It's an organic orchard, with a nice modern cottage to stay in, but with recycled windows and joinery - very comfortable. It backs on to limestone hills covered in rata and native bush, and is only a short walk from a reserve called The Grove, a limestone outcropping full of huge rata trees and weird limestone forms. It rained almost all the second day, but cleared in the evening so I went down to the local beaches, Tata and Pohara beach, and took the nice shot of Pohara with the norwest clouds on the horizon.
These grapefruit blossoms smelled wonderful.
Strange nikau palm growing at The Grove.
A vertical slot in the limestone - leads to...
this lookout over Golden Bay farmland.
Two shots of the house I stayed in - very comfortable
Rata in flower at the Abel Tasman Memorial
Funky tiled seat at Tata Beach
Tata Beach
Pohara Beach
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