Orokonui Lagoon Walk amongst beautiful surroundings

It is always good to explore a new walk wherever you are in New Zealand. We were in Dunedin and thought it would be nice to go to Drs Point, we had heard about it but never visited.

It really needs to be low tide when you go, so you can go through the caves. We first visited Orokonui Lagoon as it was still high tide at Drs Point and it was best for us to be later in the afternoon and we wanted to make a full day out. We took our lunch with us.

Orokonui Lagoon Walk is 22 minutes (19km) from Dunedin, turning off at Waitati. We parked at the Drs Point Road entrance. There are other

ByYvonne van Eerden

entrances with a carpark at Orokonui Road.

Here there were the volunteers who were getting ready to plant more flax in the area, what a great job they do.

This is a 3 km loop track around the wetland and native bush and takes about an hour with plenty of things to see on the way.

Above: The Orokonui Lagoon. Below left: The track beside the Eco Sanctuary predator fence.

Starting with the board walk we were amazed at the beautiful surroundings and as we walked further they had some very big trees.

The area was just so green. Some of the flax was in full bloom and with the green background these made fantastic photos.

On our walk we met live stock that were in the paddock beside the walk and they were certainly intrigued with what we were doing!

A side boundary track headed to the Eco Sanctuary predator free fence, so we thought we would check that out as well. It seemed to go forever and what a huge effort to keep the area predator free. The Eco Sanctuary is on the list for our next visit to Dunedin.

We continued back the way we came and joined onto the loop track again heading through native bush and trees on the way.

There were ducks in the lagoon and we heard the birds amongst the trees. A walk well worth doing, We

Above: left: A flower in bloom.

Above right: Intrigued cattle.

Below left: A cave on the beach.

Below right: The track runs beside a tall tree.