I Just spent three days at Tautuku on the South Coast and was Interested in how they have developed Tourism along the Southern Scenic Route I can see its still very much as it was ten years ago though I did get to see the Legendary Cathedral Caves despite it being the off season. It was good to see the People at McLean Falls have risen to the challenge and build a very up market Café and Accommodation business near by but the people running the Cathedral Caves seem to be existing on old Department of Conservation infrastructure from several decades ago and as far as I know there is no attempt to allow access to the Cave to people with disabilities. Fortunately there is a similar Cave at the Tautuku Beach Called Isis Cave
Which is not only free but can be reached by vehicle. The Lenz Reserve is is nearby and has a Historic Sawmilling site and Bush Tramway walks, there is also the Primordial Lake Wilkie walk way and the Tautuku Estuary Boardwalk which gives one a feel of what the area might have been like before Farming and Sawmilling. Also there is even a Maori Settlement on the Peninsula
That can only be reached at low tide sadly it was not a Settlement modeled on Pre European days but a collection of modern holiday batches... Top Marks to the Purakanui Falls that was a good side trip, however coming from Fiordland it is a little disconcerting that the water was dirty and smelt of livestock ever so slightly... Though the Mclean Falls lived up to their name.
Again you would need to be a budding mountaineer to get to the top, even at the lower levels one dices with injury to get a perfect photo.
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