Sea Kayaker’s Guide to New Zealand’s South Island

This guide details more than 90 kayaking tours spread over nine regions :

• Golden Bay
• Abel Tasman National Park
• Tasman Bay
• Marlborough Sounds
• North and south of Kaikoura
• Banks Peninsula
• Mid Canterbury Lakes and Canterbury to North Otago coastline
• West Coast
• Mackenzie Country

Featuring over 25 useful locator maps, the guide presents the beginner as well as the experienced kayaker with specific information on trip preparation, radio frequencies, marine map and chart recommendations, the easiest way to reach your launch site, and a few helpful camping tips along with some general information on safe kayaking practices.

The author’s many years of experience of kayaking in the South Island also enables him to offer a ’stroke by stroke’ commentary on places of interest along the way to your destination of choice.