Flight over Otago Harbour and Peninsular |

A flight around the Otago Harbour and Otago Peninsular

What better way to spend a Sunday morning than flying over the beautiful Otago Harbour and Otago Peninsular. We left Taieri airfield and flew over Chain Hills towards the coast.

Below is St Clair beach, showing the St Clair salt water swimming pool, St Clair Esplanade with it’s cafes etc. From there we flew over the southern side of the Peninsular. It was a little bit hazy at times and the plane windows weren’t that clean 🙂 but thought you would like to see the photos anyway.

St Clair Beach and salt water pool St Kilda beach, Lawyers Head and Chisholm Park Golf course Tomahawk Beach and LagoonLooking over Smaills beach, Tomahawk beach and Lagoon to the City and Harbour. The remains of two World War 11 gun emplacements, seen in the center of the photo stand close to the Jack Fox Lookout, which is at the top of the promontory which separates Tomahawk Beach from Smaill’s Beach.

Sandfly Bay and Sandymount

Sandfly baySandfly Bay Recreation Reserve is remarkable for its native fauna and flora and its spectacular views of the Otago Peninsula coastline and cliff tops. Yellow Eyed penguins, seals, sea lions and many sea birds can be seen in this area.

Getting there – From Highcliff Road, (which is along the top of the Otago Peninsula), turn onto Seal Point Road. Carpark at road end. Dogs are not allowed.

The mouth of Hoopers Inlet is narrowed by a large spit, the seaward coast of which forms Allans Beach. Behind this beach is a significant area of wetland and swamp, which is home to many species of flora and birds.

Hoopers Inlet

Hoopers inlet and Allans Beach

Hooper inlet (top) and Papanui Inlet (bottom)

Macandrew Bay

Portabello with Hoopers inltel in the background and the road the Aquarium in the foreground Portabello, Hoopers Inlet and Mt Charles in the backgroundPortobello Looking back towards the City