History
Curio Bay petrified forest
Waikawa, Southland
160-million-year-old fossil forest on a rock platform.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 60 min
Stumps and logs of a Jurassic forest are exposed at low tide on the shore. Yellow-eyed penguins come ashore here in the evening.
Good to know
- Visit at low tide
- Penguins in late afternoon, keep your distance
- Best time
- Low tide and late afternoon
- Getting there
- Gravel road in, small car park
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- No dogs
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