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Activities you can do in Blackball |
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Walk around town with the Blackball History Group's pamphlet to guide you Go into the old mine's ventilation chimney. " Gold panning (we have pans) Tramp the Croesus track from Blackball to Barrytown or stay overnight at the Ces Clark or Garden Gully hut. We have a local that can take you up and collect you for a small donation. Explore the tunnels under the town. You'll need a torch and gummies Go helibiking - contact stu@mthutthelicopters.co.nz or phone 03 7626117 for more details Lie around and read our books (or the library is across the road at the workingmen's club) and sip good wine Visit the Blackball Salami shop, sample and buy! Go up the Moonlight valley (4WD) Fish for salmon in season and trout all year in the Grey river Play golf at Ikamutua or Greymouth (20 minutes, either way) Visit the Working Class History Museum www.blackballmuseum.org.nz View the old mine managers house/Blackball Community Centre (which is recorded as the South Islands most haunted building) You can park your camper van there too See the gold dredge, the biggest in the southern hemisphere
And further afield...
Punakaiki (blowholes, caves, canoeing etc - 60 minutes). www.punakaiki.co.nz Nelson Creek (gold tunnels, pottery) - 20 minutes Waitua (ghost town) - 1 hour Left Bank Art Gallery (local art) Greymouth - 20 minutes Underworld rafting at Charleston - 80 minutes www.rurallodge.co.nz Truman track - 65 minutes Point Elizabeth walkway - 20 minutes Coal Creek falls - 25 minutes Woods creek track - 50 minutes Glaciers - 2 1/2 hours Jade Boulder Gallery - 20 minutes. www.jadeboulder.com Monteith's Brewery Tour - 20 minutes. www.monteiths.co.nz Scenic flights to Glaciers Moana kiwi house, Lake Brunner - 20 minutes On Yer Bike: NZ's Muddiest Offroad Adventures on Quads, Go karts, Hagglunds & Argo! Also Home to Little Earth Model Village, models of historical Waiuta and Reefton. www.onyerbike.co.nz Visit Shantytown. www.shantytown.co.nz |
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