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Sails Ashore

Photo © Peter Tait

Sails Ashore boutique hosted accommodation & Sails Guided Walks and Tours in a single package offers the very best of Stewart Island and in particular Ulva Island Open Sanctuary.

Iris and Peter are your hosts and guides and have over 60 years combined Island life between them. Peter was one time Ranger in Charge for Stewart Island and involved in early Ulva Island management. Iris was a Foundation Trustee of Ulva Island during the first of the endangered species liberations as well as the recent Kakapo viewing. Check out the birding page on our web site for a list of species you might expect to see on Ulva, their photographs plus some with song and short video. Our walks are more like nature rambles.

Party size is small, and we are happy to offer guests an exclusive experience. In addition we have our own large charter yacht and so can offer pelagic viewing and in fact customise charters to suit guests requirements.

Sails Ashore overlooks Halfmoon Bay and is everything you would expect from Qualmark 4 Star Plus rating. In the evenings our extensive library of natural history and local interest DVDs and books enables you to enjoy an in-depth look at places and birds not so easily accessible.

What better way to learn about the Island birds than over breakfast, chatting to Iris & Peter with a glorious sunrise and Kaka feeding on our balcony as a distraction


Sails Ashore Contact Details

Address

Peter & Iris Tait
11 View St
Oban
Stewart Island

Postal

P.O. Box 66
Stewart Island

Phone

Phone : 64 3 219 1151
Fax : 64 3 219 1151
Freephone : 0800 783 9278

email: tait@sailsashore.co.nz
website: http://www.sailsashore.co.nz


Birds always seen

about:South Island Saddleback South Island Saddleback

Tui
about:Tui Tui

Bell Bird
about:Bellbird Bellbird

about:Stewart Island Robin Stewart Island Robin

about:Kaka Kaka

about:Brown Creeper Brown Creeper

about:Grey Warbler Grey Warbler

about:Stewart Island Weka Stewart Island Weka

about:Red-crowned Parakeet Red-crowned Parakeet

about:New Zealand Pigeon New Zealand Pigeon

Red billed gull portrait
about:Red-billed Gull Red-billed Gull

Black backed Gull
about:Southern Black-backed Gull Southern Black-backed Gull

Variable Oystercatchers
about:Variable Oystercatcher Variable Oystercatcher

Pied Oystercatcher
about:South Island Pied Oystercatcher South Island Pied Oystercatcher

about:

about:Southern Buller's Albatross Southern Buller's Albatross

about:Salvin's Albatross Salvin's Albatross

White capped (Shy) Albatross
about:White-capped Albatross White-capped Albatross

about:Little Penguin (Blue) Little Penguin (Blue)

about:Cape Pigeon (petrel) Cape Pigeon (petrel)

about:Stewart Island Shag, Bronze Shag Stewart Island Shag, Bronze Shag

about:Blue Shag Blue Shag

about:Pied Shag Pied Shag

about:New Zealand Kingfisher New Zealand Kingfisher

White faced Heron
about:White-faced Heron White-faced Heron

about:South Island Tomtit South Island Tomtit

Birds very likely seen

about:Yellow Eyed Penguin Yellow Eyed Penguin

Yellow-eyed Penguins are one of the rarest of the world's 18 species of penguin. There are only 5,000 - 6,000 Yellow-eyed Penguins in the wild and they only live in New Zealand.

about:South Island Rifleman South Island Rifleman

about:South Island Fantail South Island Fantail

about:Yellowhead Yellowhead

about:Yellow-crowned Parakeet Yellow-crowned Parakeet

Harrier hawk
about:Australasian Harrier Australasian Harrier

about:Southern Royal Albatross Southern Royal Albatross

about:Snares Crested Penguin Snares Crested Penguin

about:Australasian Gannet Australasian Gannet

about:Stewart Island Brown Kiwi Stewart Island Brown Kiwi

about:Morepork (Ruru) Morepork (Ruru)

Birds seasonally seen

about:Long-tailed Cuckoo Long-tailed Cuckoo

about:Fiordland Crested Penguin Fiordland Crested Penguin

about:Black-fronted Tern Black-fronted Tern

about:Sooty Shearwater , Sooty Shearwater ,


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