Ulva Island Spring Romance
A couple of days ago across on Ulva with a couple from Auckland almost the first birds we saw was a Saddleback couple busy home building.
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Sails Ashore Winter Garden Chores
Iris’ Garden Iris has a little sign in her garden >> “To Live off Your Garden you almost need to Live in Your Garden” and to be fair she is never happier than in amongst her plants. And of course our guests love the fresh from garden produce that appears in snacks and nibbles. Gardens…
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Stewart Island Fishing with Sails Ashore
A fishing trip on Stewart Island has much more to offer than just fishing. Many of our seabirds will follow fish boats,
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Stewart Island Kiwi
Kiwi on Ulva Many years ago while the Island Forest Ranger my boss in Invercargill encouraged me to shift Kiwi onto Ulva Island … there were none there. I think about 6 or 8 were moved there
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Stewart Island Oystercatchers & Orchids
Part of the Sails Ashore “Stewart Island Experience” is a Guided Tour of Ulva Island Open Sanctuary. Your host Peter is also your guide, and the tour draws on my over 45 years of experience on Ulva Island, initially as Ranger in Charge, then as a very regular visitor and latterly as a natural history guide.
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A Spring Tour on Ulva Island
Sails Ashore – Stewart Island At Sails Ashore, we package a Guided Ulva Island Tour. So our guests get to experience one of the jewels of Natural New Zealand.
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A Stewart Island Family Remembered
Many of the bays around Stewart Island carry the names of old Islander families. And one of these is Leask Bay
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Winter at Sails Ashore on Stewart Island
An Islanders Winter For many of our guests Island life is a bit like the far side of the moon. After all many come from the large, busy cities, of Europe or North America. And so there is a lot of curiosity about the day to day life of an Islander. And a regular question…
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Royal Visit to Stewart Island
Stewart Island has had only two previous Royal visits. Many years ago Prince Phillip briefly visited Mason Bay on the west side of the Island while on a conservation visit, and Prince Edward spent an evenings shore leave while a guest of the Navy doing a circumnavigation of Southern New Zealand, but on the 10th May we hosted Prince Harry
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