Day 8 Fox Glacier - Lake Moeraki South Westland Magic Free morning, take a flight over the glacier or take a guided walk on the ice. Or search for the elusive NZ falcon with us. Drive on to Lake Moeraki, stopping at various lakes to look for water birds. Take a short bush walk to look for shy bush birds. Then walk to a secluded beach to look for the world's rarest penguin, the Fiordland crested penguin.
Energetic people can walk on to a fur seal colony.
Stay at a luxurious wilderness lodge. Day 9 Lake Moeraki - Queenstown Beech Forests and Tussock Relax at the lodge enjoying the bush and lake surroundings or take a canoe out onto the lake. After leaving the lodge, nearby, we look for the shy South Island fernbird in wetlands surrounding a dune lake. Also look out for a resident pod of Hectors dolphins off the coast. Leaving the West Coast podocarp forests, we head over Haast Pass and enter beech forest again, this time searching for the rare yellowhead or bush canary.