Golden Bay, New Zealand

Golden bay is an area well worth many visits. The bay is situated at the very top of the South Island. Its original name was Murderer’s Bay as named by Abel Tasman (first European to discover New Zealand). Our Golden Bay trip was only for 4 short days but to be honest we could have stayed there forever! There is so much to see and do at Golden Bay and four days is nowhere near enough.

Photo taken from the Golden Bay Lookout. Towards the horizon and around the mountains is the city of Nelson.

We stayed at Adrift at Golden Bay (http://www.adrift.co.nz) which offered an exceptional beach front accommodation. Right outside our veranda was the beach and it was spectacular.

Our accommodation at Adrift. The photo shows the beach house along with the beach side view.

One of the first things we noticed was the receding tide. At Golden bay high tide occurred right up to the cottage with low tide stretching up to 50-100 metres toward the horizon. Boats that were moored on a pier become marooned at low tide.




Time lapse of the tide as viewed at the beach house. This was from midday to approximately 6:00 pm and consisted of 130 shots in total.