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NZ Walking Routes > Marlborough > Wairau Lagoons Walkway
Wairau Lagoons Walkway
- Location
- The main access point is from the end of Hardings Road, which leaves State Highway 1, 5 km south of Blenheim. There is a carpark, and information.
- Description
The Wairau lagoons have formed over the last 6,500 years behind a 8 kilometre-long boulder bank created from gravel and stones washed up the coast by sea currents.
The main activity is a three-hour walking track that gives an insight into the lagoons and the habitat they provide. The walk is, unlike most walks in New Zealand, virtually flat. It makes a loop from the carpark along the shoreline of the upper lagoon and past Budges and Moerepo Islands to the lagoons' main channel where the rusting hulk of the Waverley sits in the mud.
Return either the same way or, more directly, across the saltmarsh area, with its salt resistant plants. Alternatively, it is possible to continue beyond the Waverley for a view of the river.
- Duration
- 3.0 hours
- Level
- Easy
- Amenities
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- Carpark
- Plant Life
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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