West Coast Purity

Sydney Morning Herald writer Anthony Dennis travels to the South Island’s West Coast and marvels the glow-worms  beneath a “pristine sky … so starry it looks as if it’s been attacked by a monumental salt-shaker.” Hosted by New Zealand ex-journalist Susan Cook and her partner, American Marion “Weasel” Boatwright at the Rough and Tumble Bush Lodge, Dennis takes a day trip down rusty railway lines. “What lies ahead is the unspoiled world of the Tasman Sea coastline … mountains never more than 30-kilometers from the sea … tranquil viewing points where you can marvel at some of the world’s most wondrous alpine scenery.”