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Tag Archives: lagoon

Rimu tour Day 6

It was so good to be back in Okarito for a couple days.  We got to see our bosses again and sleep in the caravan for the last time.  We all went kayaking on the Okarito lagoon in the morning.  We’ll show you some pictures and introduce you to our awesome tour group.
Meet Stan…  He’s...

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5 mile beach

Colin and I (Andre’a) headed down to 5 mile lagoon to go kayaking again. The day we went was just beautiful. We really wanted to spend a little more time at this beautiful lagoon before we left.  However, this time we went, five mile lagoon happened to be open (meaning it was flowing out to...

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the other side of the Okarito lagoon

A couple of weeks ago the Okarito Lagoon closed up. Usually the water flows from the lagoon into the ocean or the other way around (depending on the tides). But every once in a while it gets blocked up by sand…. and no one knows why. It just does. But when it gets...

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the seals

Andre’a and I have figured out that if you do the 3 mile lagoon walk on the beach close to high tide, you have to climb on rocks to get past, but you also have a high chance of seeing some seals. We saw 2 seals on this trip and luckily enough we had the...

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Kayaking in the Okarito Lagoon

Andre’a and I had the opportunity to go kayaking in the Okarito lagoon. The day we went was absolutely beautiful. It was a perfect day. The water was pretty chilly but well worth it.
Andre’a took this awesome picture of the white heron in the lagoon. They are pretty rare birds but we have...

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