香港六合彩即时开奖

Goldfields Heritage Centre

The West Coast


The community-run Goldfields Heritage Centre harks back to Ross's shiny years, with displays and dioramas on gold mining, a scale model of the town, and the chance to try gold-panning out back ($10).


香港六合彩即时开奖's must-see attractions

Nearby The West Coast attractions

1. Lake M膩hinapua

8.51 MILES

Serene Lake M膩hinapua lies 10km southwest of Hokitika, screened from SH6 by its surrounding forest. The scenic reserve, gazetted in 1907, has a picnic鈥

2. Hokitika Gorge

10.9 MILES

Water this turqouise doesn't come easily. Half a million years of glacial movement sculpted Hokitika's ravine; the rock 'flour' ground over millennia鈥

3. Sunset Point

14.26 MILES

A visit to Sunset Point is a quintessential Hokitika experience: watch the day's light fade away, observe whitebaiters casting nets, munch fish and chips,鈥

4. Hokitika Museum

14.59 MILES

Housed in the gorgeous, recently strengthened Carnegie Building (1908), this museum has displays on greenstone, gold mining, history and whitebait fishing.

5. Clock Tower

14.68 MILES

Iconic only to West Coast locals, Hokitika's attractive clock tower was unveiled in 1903 to commemorate King Edward VII's coronation and to memorialise鈥

6. National Kiwi Centre

14.76 MILES

Tiptoe through the darkened kiwi house to watch the birds rummage for tasty insects, or stare a tuatara 鈥 a reptile unchanged for 150 million years 鈥 in鈥

7. St Mary's Catholic Church

14.84 MILES

This handsome Catholic church, completed in 1928, could only be admired from the outside when we passed through, due to earthquake-strengthening鈥

8. Glowworm Dell

15.56 MILES

At nightfall, bring a torch (or grope your way) into this grotto on the northern edge of town, signposted off SH6. The dell is an easy opportunity to鈥