Cruise Port Guide · 12 cruises visit Bluff →
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Cross Foveaux Strait to Stewart Island — one of the world's last places to spot wild kiwi in daylight. A guided small-group twilight walk into Rakiura National Park is an utterly unforgettable bucket-list wildlife moment.
Explore the primeval forest and deserted bays of Stewart Island's Rakiura National Park on a private, expert-guided day walk — New Zealand wilderness at its most untouched and magnificent.
Bluff's world-famous flat oysters are the pinnacle of Southern Ocean seafood. Board a private charter to tour the harbour and arrive at source for a guided tasting paired with New Zealand's finest Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.
Journey east along the wild Catlins coastline — a hidden gem of thundering waterfalls, petrified forest, and fur seal colonies that most travellers never discover. A luxury private day tour from Bluff into one of New Zealand's most dramatic landscapes.
Discover Invercargill's superbly preserved Edwardian streetscapes and world-class Southland Museum before settling into a private tutored tasting at New Zealand's most southerly craft brewery — a cultural immersion into the proud 'deep south' identity.
Cast into the legendary Foveaux Strait aboard a premium private fishing charter for the prized blue cod — the finest eating fish in New Zealand's southern waters. A thrilling, hands-on encounter with the Southern Ocean on the doorstep of Bluff.
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