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
17.52 MILES
Lying at the heart of a 7000-hectare scenic reserve, 18km southeast of Hokitika, beautiful Lake Kaniere is 8km long, 2km wide, up to 195m deep, and鈥
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
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
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
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
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
14.59 MILES
Housed in the gorgeous, recently strengthened Carnegie Building (1908), this museum has displays on greenstone, gold mining, history and whitebait fishing.
21.63 MILES
Hari Hari is where swashbuckling Australian aviator Guy Menzies crash-landed his trusty biplane into a swamp after completing the first solo trans-Tasman鈥
Nearby The West Coast attractions
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
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
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
14.59 MILES
Housed in the gorgeous, recently strengthened Carnegie Building (1908), this museum has displays on greenstone, gold mining, history and whitebait fishing.
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
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
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
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