Day 160, Part 2: After an awesome day in Oban we are now onto Part 2 of today’s Stewart Island adventure! Check out what it’s like to do a flight over Stewart Island and land in Mason Bay, and stay the night in the Rakiura National Park!

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After an awesome day carving our own jade in Stewart Island, it is now evening in Oban, Stewart Island and time to catch our flight right across Stewart Island and Rakiura National Park! We are picked up by the team of Stewart Island Flights and driven to Oban’s air strip!

We hop into a small 10-seater plane and depart for our Stewart Island flight right across Stewart Island. The flight only lasts about 6 minutes but we lap up the views of the Rakiura National Park before doing a beach landing on Mason Bay. Here, our pilot points us in the right direction to hike to in order to make our way to the Mason Bay Hut where we are going to be staying the night.

Mason Bay on Stewart Island is a stunning and isolated beach well known for having a few kiwi sightings on the beach and around the Mason Bay Hut, so as soon as we settle into the Mason Bay Hut, we are back outside to do some kiwi spotting in Stewart Island.

Although we can hear kiwi birds on Stewart Island all around us, we are unsuccessful in spotting them tonight. However, we do catch an amazing sunset and watch the starts on Mason Bay.

Tomorrow, we are going to be hiking across Stewart Island from Mason Bay to the Freshwater River where hopefully our Stewart Island kiwi spotting will be more successful then.

So what do you think of taking a scenic flight in Stewart Island? Would you fly over Stewart Island and stay in the Rakiura National Park? LUK in the comments.

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