Capital cities and small towns
Discover amazing places to photograph and create your own special portfolio of memories. Beautiful cool climate gardens, stunning scenery and remote locations where you can relax into the moment. Suspension bridges on the Hump Back Track, vintage trains in Lumsden, mountain backdrops with the Southern Alps in the shot and heritage Invercargill with its trove of buildings, parks and motoring museums.
@Tudor Park Gardens
GARDENS AND PARKS
- Salvias at Marshwood gardens, a plant person’s garden brimming with salvia’s and perennials
- Riverton Tudor Park Gardens and smell the roses
- Invercargill Queens Gardens sculptures, planted beds and mature trees
- Check out 8 fabulous Southland gardens and parks, things to do & see: Best Bits for further inspiration
BEACHES & OUTDOORS
- Balancing rock, Riverton selfie at Gemstone beach
- Riverton street art murals as a backdrop
- Riverston Te Hikoi Museum entrance with exhausted whaler
- Templeton Flax Mill Heritage Museum with evocative rusting machinery
- Selfie with a swede (vegetable not a person). Tip Wilson’s stall at Wilson’s Crossing
- Selfie against Gore’s humongous brown trout sculpture
Riverton street art whale mural
@Highlands Museum
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
- Invercargill boasts the largest collections of motorised vehicles in the Southern Hemisphere together. MOTORING MUSEUMS to check out for photo moments and inhale the petrol / diesel fumes
- Southland Museum funky entrance mural
- Hokonui Moonshine museum – ‘disreputable’ looking bootlegger exhibit
EAT & DRINK
- Your cheese roll from the local cafe
- Blue cod fish n chips at the beach or park complete with wrapped paper
- Bluff and sample local oysters and seafood
BEST BITS TRAVEL GUIDE
