Exploring Oban on Stewart Island – New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – Backpacker Guide New Zealand
Day 159: Today we are taking the ferry to Stewart Island! That’s right, check out how we travel from Bluff to Stewart Island where we spend our first day on Stewart Island exploring Oban and it’s beautiful Stewart Island beaches!
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Today we are going to Stewart Island! The most popular way to get to Stewart Island is to take the ferry between Bluff and Oban. We hop on the ferry in Bluff with Real Journeys and start making our merry way over the Foveaux Strait to Oban, the one and only town in Stewart Island.
When we arrive, we check into the Stewart Island Backpackers then start exploring Oban. After getting some lunch and meeting some locals, we find a walking track along the coast of Oban, over some cliffs to a nice secluded beach called Bathing Beach. Bathing Beach is a beautiful golden sand beach. Although we are as far south as we’re ever likely to get, the beaches in Oban look like a tropical paradise.
We make our way back into Oban town and catch a movie and the one and only cinema on Stewart Island, the Bunkhouse Theatre. It’s a cosy boutique-style cinema showing one movie called A Local’s Tail giving the Stewart Island history from the perspective of a dog. It’s pretty hilarious and sums up Stewart Island life and humour nicely.
So what do you think of Oban, Stewart Island? Is it a New Zealand town worth visiting? LUK in the comments.
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Visiting the Bunkhouse
Independent filmmakers, Stewart Island Bunkhouse Productions, launch this charming invitation to browse through the island's history, guided by a local dog.
This quirky 40 minute film will be showing everyday throughout the summer in the big screen comfort of the Bunkhouse Theatre (opposite the DOC Centre).
Producers, Pete Davis and Penny Golias, hope to answer the myriad of questions that holiday makers have about the 'why' and 'how' of Stewart Island, from the most reliable of all sources - the pub (or more accurately, from the yarns overheard at the pub by a local dog).
See the board outside for daily session times and for $10 kick off your island holiday with a nugget of inside knowledge - straight from the dog's mouth.
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A Local's Tail Trailer
This is the trailer for A LOCAL'S TAIL, which is a quirky 40 minute film about Stewart Island, New Zealand. Showing everyday throughout the summer, in the big screen comfort of the Bunkhouse Theatre, Stewart Island.
A Local's tail introduces local characters, community colour, and the struggles and triumphs of the island pioneers, both past and present.
Independent filmmakers, Stewart Island Bunkhouse Productions, launch this charming invitation to browse though the island's history, guided by a local dog.
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No Ordinary Sheila | Trailer
In Cinemas October 19
If you haven’t already heard of Sheila Natusch, prepare to be inspired. The life story of this nonagenarian natural historian, illustrator and writer is a beautiful, truly Antipodean journey, made with love by her cousin and long-time Kiwi filmmaker, Hugh Macdonald (This is New Zealand).
Born in 1926 on Rakiura (Stewart Island) to the Traill family, Sheila’s early childhood memories include a near-drowning at the hands of schoolmates – this and other life misfortunes she shrugs off casually. Growing up in the deep south led to an adventurous resilience which saw her climb multiple mountains, cycle from Picton to Bluff and write dozens of groundbreaking natural history books, including her magnum opus, Animals of New Zealand.
Featuring beautiful historic footage of the lower south in the 30s and 40s, this film offers fascinating glimpses into life as one of few female students at Otago University, and covers Sheila’s friendship with Janet Frame and their subsequent and unsuccessful foray into teaching. Moving to Wellington in the 50s saw Sheila and husband Gilbert Natusch take up residence in Owhiro Bay, while she had professional stints at the National Library and Correspondence School.
Viewers will love this radiant, defiant and unconventional life story which ranges from the southern wilds to the rugged Wellington coastline, where Sheila still lived until very recently, without car, TV, lipstick or alcohol, planning to “get the last bit of fun out of life that there is.” — Jo Randerson
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