  Bluff awaiting departure in a gale | 
  Ferry to Stewart Island before a very rough crossing | 
  Oban  from our B&B | 
  Half Moon Bay from Observation Rock | 
 
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  Kaka | 
  Peter Tait, host and naturalist, with robin | 
  Weka | 
 
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  Weka | 
  "Blossom" male elephant seal | 
  they are huge! | 
  our water taxi to Ulva Island Peter Tait's boat | 
  Stewart Island   from Ulva Island | 
  Ryan's Creek trail | 
 
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  Patterson Inlet | 
 
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  Neptune's postbox? walk to Harrold's Bay | 
 
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  oldest house in  New Zealand | 
  a wet Horseshoe Bay | 
  Car wrecks awaiting shipping |