Self-Driving Tour: New Southwest China Southern Coastline - Three Beaches with Distinct Styles and Wonders
Here is a high-efficiency self-driving trip in Linzi.
New Zealand's South Island is surrounded by sea on four sides, with stunning coastal scenery. The four coasts – east, west, north and south – have many beautiful beaches with distinct styles.
The Southern Scenic Route is the core of self-driving tours in New Zealand's South Island. However, it's the worst road in terms of road conditions, with many gravel sections. Car rental companies in this area don't offer insurance. Because of this, the stretch from Te Anau to Dunedin along the Southern Coast, especially the section along the Southern Coast, is sparsely visited by tourists, offering a completely private experience.
I really want to live in a small fishing village every day, to dig clams on the beach, to watch yellow-eyed penguins, and to swim with dolphins, with the sea facing and spring flowers blooming.
Visit Waiopatipat Beach and explore the Cathedral Cave to see 'Spring Tide Flows Meet the Sea'
Years of tranquility and change, the ocean has created wonders that amaze people. The Cathedral Cave, located on Waiopatipat Beach, is one of the most famous masterpieces.
This cave is formed by thousands of years of sea erosion. The main cave's dome resembles a church's arch. When singing inside, the sound effect is surprisingly good.
Standing in front of this cave, the beach is smooth and sandy, and the sea gently rises and falls. The whole picture is beautifully unreal.
Sit on a rock and watch the tides rise and fall, the clouds roll and the wind blow, without hasty photography.
Cathedral Cave
Waiopatipat Beach
Small Tips:
1Open to visitors two hours before low tide, and close again two hours after. Cannot enter after 9 pm at night.
2Because there are staff members who open and close the cave at designated times, there is a charge.
3Main roads have signs indicating high and low tide times, and the daily opening and closing times.
4Less than 30km from Kurio Bay, and 60km from Kaka Point.
Go to Kurio Bay to admire the fossil forest
Located less than 30km from the Cathedral Cave, there is a very magical bay. This bay was a vast forest as far back as the Jurassic period, part of a supercontinent at the time. Today, at low tide, this beach reveals a large fossil forest, where you can see the tree's veins.
Walk down the wooden steps to the beach and see the fossils stretching out to the ocean. One billion eight hundred million years, a blink of an eye.
It's also a breeding protection area for yellow-eyed penguins. If you live in Waihuka Village, could I see penguins returning home at dusk, under the setting sun and fossil forest beach – a miracle?
Kurio Bay
Kurio Bay
Small Tips:
1There is a platform for viewing the fossil forest, don't easily enter the yellow lines.
2The viewing platform near the observation deck has a sign indicating the best time to see the yellow-eyed penguins daily.
3Very close to the slope angle, the nearby Waihuka Village has accommodation.
Go to Dolphin Bay to find the Hector's dolphin
Located just across the hill from Kurio Bay, the rare Hector's dolphin lives here. It is said that only Dolphin Bay in the world can see this scarce small dolphin. In summer and autumn, you may have the chance to see Hector's dolphins 'showing off their figures' on the sea.
Besides this little elf, Dolphin Bay also has a golden beach and a calm sea. Sitting on the slope's relaxing chair, overlooking the crescent-shaped beach, watching the brave rocks fight the waves in the distance, and enjoying the gentle sea breeze of the South Pacific.
It's unimaginable that this beach just across the hill was once a forest. What was it like in the past?
Dolphin Bay
Dolphin Bay
Small Tips:
1Here you can swim and surf, there is a surfing school.
2Located about 10km from Kurio Bay.
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