Hickory Bay, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand

A beautiful isolated bay approachable only by a steep, very narrow shingle road with a very precipitous drop-off on the downhill side, and then a short walk along a public access track through farmland to a beach of sand and volcanic boulders and soaring volcanic cliffs covered in shag ledges defined by guano of generations of these and other seabirds.

You have to really want to get there, but it's worth it!

 

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