Péninsule de Kaikoura
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 2.8 mi
- Elevation gain
- 394 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 381 ft
- Max elevation
- 234 ft
- TrailRank
- 31
- Min elevation
- 14 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Coordinates
- 110
- Uploaded
- May 16, 2016
near South Bay, Canterbury (New Zealand)
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Near the car park at the beginning of the trail, at Point Kean (Photo 1), about twenty fur seals bask in the sun (Photos 2 and 3). Next door, there are herons, geese (Photo 4), seagulls (Photo 5), cormorants, gulls ... The trail runs along the coast, above the cliff overlooking the shore. Hutton, in danger of extinction, only breeds in Kaikoura, there are two colonies in the mountains facing the sea and an artificial colony protected from predators, built in 2004 to save the species. This artificial colony is located on the peninsula at Whalers bay, near the trail. There is an informative sign about this colony on the side of the trail. Nearby, a trail descends the sediment cliff (Photo 6) and leads to the shore. Near a sugar loaf, there is a migratory bird colony in winter, but we went there in the summer. We came back on the trail at the top of the cliff and we continued to South Bay where we saw cormorants and green-necked ducks
Waypoints
Car park
7 ft
Point Kean Parking
Waypoint
59 ft
Point Kean viewpoint
Waypoint
187 ft
Whalers bay viewpoint
Waypoint
3 ft
Sugar loaf
Waypoint
220 ft
Hutton Shearwater colony
River
33 ft
Stream
Car park
56 ft
South bay parking
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