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How Many Days Do You Need in Halfmoon Bay (Oban)?
How to choose between a mainland day trip, two days or three in Halfmoon Bay/Oban on Stewart Island, using published ferry and flight timetables, fares and seasons.
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1.How many days do you need in Halfmoon Bay?
Two days is the answer that fits, and a third buys a long day walk out of the township or a spare day against the weather; DOC publishes its Rakiura Track as three days of walking, so a Great Walk trip needs the crossing days around it rather than inside it. The settlement is the one LINZ's Gazetteer records under the dual name Halfmoon Bay / Oban, and DOC describes it as "Stewart Island/Rakiura's main settlement of Oban in Halfmoon Bay" — one place, two names, and the addresses on Main Road use both. What sets the length of a trip here is the crossing and the calendar rather than the list of things to do: DOC puts the ferry from Bluff at an hour and the flight from Invercargill at 20 minutes (as of August 2026), and several of the island's headline tours publish a season rather than a year. Every fare, fee, timetable and season below is the operator's, the museum's, DOC's or Southland District Council's own published figure as of August 2026, so read the booking calendar for your date before you commit to it.
2.What each trip length holds
The trip lengths in the left-hand column are this guide's own framing rather than anyone's published figure; every fare, season, duration and condition behind them is the operator's or DOC's own, and they sit in the sections below (as of August 2026).
| Trip length | What it holds (as of August 2026) | Choose it if | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| A day trip from the mainland | Less than a full day ashore, on hours the printed ferry timetable sets and the block you sail changes, with no spare day behind it | You are passing through Bluff or Invercargill and want the island without moving your bags | Read more |
| Two days | Ulva Island by water taxi or with a guide, the walks that start at the visitor centre, and a kiwi tour after dark | You want the open sanctuary and the birds without a tramping commitment | Read more |
| Three days or more | Two days in town with a long day walk and a buffer against a cancelled crossing, or the crossing days either side of DOC's three-day Rakiura Track | You are here to tramp, or you would rather not stake the trip on one sailing | Read more |
3.In detail
A day trip from the mainland: the timetable decides it
RealNZ publishes its Bluff to Oban ferry as a one-hour crossing, and its printed timetable is what shapes a day (as of August 2026). The block RealNZ marks valid until 30 September 2026 leaves Bluff at 9:45am and 4:30pm and Oban at 8:00am and 3:00pm; from 1 October 2026 the pattern becomes 9:15am and 5:30pm outbound with 7:30am and 4:00pm back; and from 1 December 2026 a third pair is added, 2:00pm from Bluff and 12:00pm from Oban (as of August 2026). RealNZ footnotes that table as indicative and subject to change, asks you to refer to its website booking calendar for your date of travel, and adds that some departures do not operate on Christmas Day (as of August 2026). Check-in is 30 minutes before a ferry departure and the gates close 10 minutes before it, so the block printed until 30 September leaves a little under four hours ashore between the first boat over and the last one back, and the 1 October pattern stretches that past five (as of August 2026).
RealNZ's own day-trip package shows what five hours ashore buys, even though it comes at the island from the other side: its published itinerary puts you on the island from 10:30 until a 15:30 to 16:00 departure, and fills that gap with the 1 hour 30 minute Stewart Island Village & Bays Tour from the Oban Visitor Centre and the roughly 2.5-hour Ulva Island Explorer, under the operator's note that timings are indicative and may vary with weather and operational conditions (as of August 2026). That package flies from Queenstown rather than sailing from Bluff (from NZD $1091, booked by phone or email), but both activities are sold on the island in their own right — the Village & Bays Tour from NZD $59, suitable for all ages, and the Ulva Island Explorer from NZD $145, whose picnic lunch is a separate $38 per person that must be pre-ordered before 12pm the day before travel (as of August 2026). Both product pages carry an Activity Eligibility & Restrictions block pointing at RealNZ's eligibility page, whose Stewart Island / Rakiura Nature Walks section says walks other than its Wild Kiwi Experience have no strict age limit but requires that children be actively supervised by a responsible adult, that participants be able to walk on uneven terrain, maintain balance and manage steps and natural surfaces for the full duration of their chosen walk and safely navigate vessel decks or bus boarding and disembarkation, and that sturdy, closed footwear be worn (as of August 2026).
The crossing itself is where the conditions live. RealNZ headlines it at "From NZD $145" for an adult fare and does not say, on the product page or on its own planning blog, whether that is one way or return, so read the fare basis, the child and concession rates and the seasonal variation off RealNZ's booking page; the same page does attach an explicit "(one way)" to the bike and kayak lines of its additional-charges block, valid until 30 September 2026 — a bike $35, an e-bike $55, a single kayak $45, a double $60 and a sea kayak $75 — while the same block carries no such qualifier on its "Dinghy priced on arrival" and "Motorbikes priced on arrival" lines (as of August 2026). The boat takes passengers and light freight only, so no car comes with you, though RealNZ hires rental cars, minivans and e-bikes from its Oban Visitor Centre; the allowance is two checked bags and one small carry-on per person, with extra baggage by prior arrangement that RealNZ says is not available on all departures because of the limited cargo space (as of August 2026). Parking at the Bluff terminal cannot be booked in advance, and RealNZ's own page gives two accounts of when you pay for it: the parking block says to pay for your parking ticket when you check in for the ferry, while the FAQ further down describes an airport-style facility, at extra cost and covering day and overnight parking, where you collect a ticket on entry and pay when you leave (as of August 2026). Coach connections from Invercargill meet each ferry departure and arrival at extra cost, on a drive RealNZ puts at around 30 minutes (as of August 2026).
Flying changes the arithmetic rather than the plan. Stewart Island Flights puts Invercargill to Oban at 20 minutes and publishes GST-inclusive fares of $274.00 adult return and $158.00 one way, $175.00 and $105.00 for a child aged 4 to 14, and infants under 4 free on the lap of an adult, with a 15 kg baggage allowance, transportation to and/or from the airstrip on Stewart Island — DOC's Oban page names it Ryan's Creek — and the Stewart Island visitor levy included in the fare (as of August 2026). Its summer schedule (1 October to 30 April) and winter schedule (1 May to 30 September) each print three departures a day in each direction, above the operator's own note that additional flights are scheduled to meet passenger demand, and excess or over-sized baggage is subject to availability on the flight and may be deferred until there is space (as of August 2026). The sea gets a vote on the ferry: RealNZ says that if, on rare occasions, a scheduled departure is cancelled because of adverse weather, passengers are rebooked onto a later trip or refunded in full, and its own flexible cancellation term gives reschedules or refunds with up to 24 hours notice (as of August 2026) — manageable on a two-day trip, and the whole trip on a one-day one.
Two days: Ulva Island, the town walks and kiwi after dark
The second day is usually Ulva Island/Te Wharawhara, which DOC describes as one of the few pest-free open sanctuaries in New Zealand, never milled and pest-free since 1997 — and the same land manager publishes a predator-control caution alongside that history, last reviewed 8 July 2026: toxic bait containing brodifacoum was deployed in bait stations on the island in an urgent response to a rodent incursion and was removed on 05 June 2026, DOC puts the caution period for that operation at 12 months after bait removal, and it says visitor access to the island remains open, with toxin warning signage placed at key entrance points (as of August 2026). Access is by boat, from Halfmoon Bay or Golden Bay to the main wharf at Post Office Bay, and DOC states that there is no public accommodation on the island, that camping and night visits are not allowed, that there are no shops and no rubbish bins, and that there may be toxic carcasses and bait — green coloured pellets — in the area, adding that although risk is low it can be eliminated if you do not touch bait and watch children at all times, so it is a self-contained trip built around a boat time rather than a stop on the way to something else (as of August 2026).
Getting across is the first decision. Aihe Eco Charters & Water Taxi publishes Ulva at NZ$30.00 an adult aged 15 and over and NZ$20.00 a child aged 5 to 14 without wharf transfers, over a minimum fare of NZ$75.00 — so one or two travellers do not simply pay one or two times the per-person rate — with children under 5 free, standard operating hours of 7.45am to 6.30pm and extra charges outside them, and every trip subject to prior booking and suitable weather and sea conditions (as of August 2026). Its with-transfers rate for Ulva is NZ$35.00 an adult and NZ$20.00 a child over the same NZ$75.00 minimum, and the operator's own footnote pins where those transfers collect: they are Aihe's licensed road transport to Golden Bay Wharf and back, from the Ruggedy Range Booking Office or select accommodation venues in the centre of Oban, so that rate is not a pick-up from anywhere on the island — its general shuttle, which is a different line, is $6.00 per person one way to and from accommodation or on arrival from the ferry terminal or flight depot (as of August 2026). Rakiura Charters & Water Taxi's Ulva Island Return runs from Golden Bay Wharf, and the book-now card on that trip's own page prices it "From $35/adult $25/child, return 2-8 hrs" (as of August 2026). It sets its own passenger bands — adults, children 6 to 13 years and infants 0 to 5 — rather than Aihe's 15-and-over, 5 to 14 and under-5, so match the band as well as the number when you set its child fare against Aihe's (as of August 2026). On the same page it says bookings are usually made with approximately 3 hours on Ulva Island before the skipper collects you from Post Office Bay, that you can choose your duration from its available options and it recommends between 2 and 4.5 hours, that online reservations are checked by staff for weather and minimum fares before a booking is confirmed, and that it runs the Ulva Island service every day in its main summer season and is closed Christmas Day only, with out-of-season trips provided on demand subject to availability and a request to contact it directly if your date or preferred time is not showing, particularly in winter (as of August 2026). Those are the two water-taxi operators this guide covers rather than a survey of everyone serving the island, and Aihe notes that Golden Bay Wharf is a 10 to 15 minute walk from the centre of Oban while Halfmoon Bay Wharf is in the village (as of August 2026).
With a guide the day is longer and the birds get explained. Ulva's Guided Walks runs a 3.5 to 4 hour guided Ulva Island tour from $194 an adult, from $108 a teenager aged 14 to 18 and from $95 a child aged 5 to 13, including the return water taxi, the guide, DOC concession fees and GST; it departs 8.20am and 12.40pm in October to April and once each morning in May, July, August and September, with the operator adding that flexible or additional departures may be possible on enquiry, and it operates year-round except the month of June and Christmas Day (as of August 2026). The same page states that prior bookings are essential, that walkers need to manage at least 3 hours unassisted, that tours cannot be ended prematurely, and that its group size is ideally 3 to 7 people (as of August 2026).
Kiwi is where the month you choose matters most, and RealNZ's own page publishes two seasons for one of its two encounters rather than one. Its comparison table gives the Wild Kiwi & Culture Encounter as November to March ($299, at Oneke "The Neck") and the Stewart Island Wild Kiwi Encounter as October to April ($269, at Little Glory Cove), a table figure the same page's own product header prints as "From NZD $269" and so a floor rather than a flat fare, while the FAQ lower down the same page puts the Stewart Island Wild Kiwi Encounter at October to May — so read the comparison table and the FAQ together rather than either alone, and what they agree on is that neither encounter is published as running in June, July, August or September (as of August 2026). Both leave the Main Wharf at Oban with check-in 30 minutes before departure and both are restricted to participants aged 15 and over, and the 4 hours and 4.5 hours RealNZ's comparison table prints for them are durations, while the operator publishes a single minimum of 4 hours covering both encounters, which it says its guides may extend to maximise viewing when kiwi are showing (as of August 2026).
Through the winter months the kiwi question is which operators publish any operation at all. Ulva's Guided Walks runs evening kiwi spotting at the Mamaku Point Conservation Reserve, from $155 per person over 2 to 3 hours, with the vehicle transfers from Oban township to Mamaku Point and back to Stewart Island accommodation, the specialist kiwi guide, a donation to the Mamaku Point Conservation Trust and GST included in that price, departing daily after sunset at a time that moves through the year (the operator's examples are 7pm in July and 10pm in January), year-round excluding the month of June and evenings when fireworks are likely to be set off — the operator's own examples of those are 1 January, 5 November, 25 December and 31 December — and not suitable for those with visual or hearing impairment, walking difficulties, or children under 12 (as of August 2026). Ruggedy Range Wilderness Experience, whose booking office is on the township's Main Road, prices its Evening Eco Watch kiwi spotting at NZ$175 an adult for three hours or NZ$150 for two, with children, whom its own rate card defines as 5 to 14 years of age, at NZ$110 and NZ$95 under its own note that those rates are valid to June 2027, and publishes start-time bands it says vary with sightings — approximately 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm from April to October, 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm in November, 9.30 pm to 10.15 pm from December to January and 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm from February to March (as of August 2026). Its Evening Eco Watch fare includes the courtesy transfer back to accommodation, except that clients staying beyond the immediate vicinity of Oban — Horseshoe Bay, Lee Bay, Jensen Bay and Ringaringa are the operator's own examples — pay an additional NZ$20 per person, to a maximum of NZ$50, for the drop-off after the tour (as of August 2026). Its departure line carries its conditions with it: it departs daily subject to demand, minimum numbers and weather conditions, prior bookings are essential, and it asks for four people, adding that during the off-season it names as May to September tours may operate at its discretion for three people with a NZ$35 per-person surcharge (as of August 2026). It also rules the tour not suitable for anyone with walking difficulties or severely impaired night vision. Separately, it publishes the tour as not suitable for the elderly or children below the age of 12, except at the discretion of the guide (as of August 2026). Its season comes with conditions attached: it puts its main operating season at October through till April, says it operates during most of the off-season subject to feasible numbers, and adds that it will also have some weeks where it does not operate, with advance bookings essential at any time of year (as of August 2026). So of the kiwi tours this guide covers, the two that publish any operation through the winter months are Ulva's Guided Walks, which runs in every month but June, and Ruggedy Range on those conditions (as of August 2026). Because Ruggedy Range publishes an enquiry form rather than a booking calendar, a winter date is a question for the operator rather than something this guide or you can read off a screen. The operators named here are the ones this guide examined rather than a list of everyone guiding for kiwi from the township.
Around the boats, the walking starts in the township itself. DOC times its Oban day walks as returns from the Rakiura National Park Visitor Centre and puts the set at 30 minutes to 4 hours, with Observation Rock at 30 minutes, the cemetery at 45 minutes, Fern Gully at 2 hours, Kaipipi Bay at 3 hours and Horseshoe Point at 3 to 4 hours among the walks it names, and it states buggy suitability walk by walk rather than for the set as a whole. For a wet afternoon, Rakiura Museum Te Puka o Te Waka charges $10.00 an adult with children under 16 free, suggests a minimum viewing time of 45 to 60 minutes, and prints its hours by season on its Information page: a summer schedule from 1 October to 30 April (Monday to Friday 10.00am to 4.00pm, Saturday and Sunday 10.00am to 3.00pm) and a winter schedule from 1 May to 30 September (Monday to Sunday 10.00am to 3.00pm), with all public holidays at 10.00am to 3.00pm and closed on Christmas Day (as of August 2026).
A third day and beyond: the Rakiura Track, or a buffer against the weather
The third day gets spent in one of a few ways, and the longest of them asks for more than a third day. DOC publishes the Rakiura Track as a 32 km loop walked over 3 days on an intermediate tramping track and calls it a year-round Great Walk; Rakiura Charters describes the complete track as 29 km on its own Rakiura Track destinations page while printing 32 km on its Port William page, so plan on DOC's 32 km as the land manager's figure and read the 29 km as belonging to one page rather than to the operator (as of August 2026). It can be walked in either direction from two starts, both of them at the township end: Oban to Lee Bay is 1 hour 30 minutes over 5 km, and the Fern Gully car park is 2 km beyond the visitor centre on Main Road. DOC's longest day on the track, Port William Hut to North Arm Hut, is 6 hours over 13 km, and if you would rather not walk out of Oban it notes that shuttles can drop you at Lee Bay and water taxis can reach the track's huts, with boat access to North Arm Hut dependent on tides.
Booking it is not optional. DOC states that all huts and campsites on the Rakiura Track must be booked in advance all year round, that without a valid booking you may be charged a penalty or turned away if the hut or campsite is full, and that the maximum stay at each is 2 nights (as of August 2026). Hut fees are per person per night and seasonal — $44 for a New Zealand adult and $66 for an international adult from 1 October to 30 April, $38 for both from 1 May to 30 June and $31 for both from 1 July to 30 September, with lower child rates — while campsites are $19 for a New Zealand adult and $28 for an international adult from 1 October to 30 April, and $6 for both from 1 May to 30 September, and DOC prints the same line under both of those tables: proof of eligibility is required for the New Zealand rate (as of August 2026). Read the free column on both tables as a New Zealand one: DOC prints a single free column and heads it "Infant NZ 0 to 4 years", while its international children's band is headed "Child INT 0 to 17 years" and so starts at age 0, which puts an international under-five on the child hut rate of $33, $19 or $15 by band and on the child campsite rate of $14 or $3 (as of August 2026). DOC adds that the campsites are not adjacent to the huts and that campers may not use hut facilities, though each site has a cooking shelter, water supply and toilet.
What you carry matters as much as what you book. DOC warns that during long periods of rain the mud between Port William Hut and North Arm Hut can go above boot height in stretches up to 500 m long, and recommends sturdy footwear and gaiters rather than requiring them; it describes the island's weather as very changeable, with strong winds, hail and heavy rain possible at any time of year; and it notes that mobile coverage is restricted to the immediate township, so consider carrying a distress beacon. The huts have no gas cooking facilities, lighting or toilet paper and the bunkrooms have no heating, and you cannot buy food on the track, so a portable stove, candles, spare meals and a water bottle all go in the pack.
If that is more than you want to tramp, a third day absorbs a long walk instead. DOC times Garden Mound and Little River at 4 to 5 hours return over 3.8 km, cautioning that the track is steep, slippery and muddy in places and needs tramping boots, and Maori Beach at 6 to 7 hours return over 9.8 km. Rakiura Charters sells a one-way version of the Great Walk's coastal leg, dropping you at the Port William wharf for a walk out to Lee Bay, from where you can book a shuttle back or walk the roads for another 1.25 hours; it calls that leg a 3-4 hour hike on its Rakiura Track destinations page, while its Port William Cruise & Walk page prints more than one length for the same walk — a "3-5 hour freedom walk" and a "3-4hr freedom walk" in its own summary, "around 3-4 hours" in the paragraph describing that section of track, and a "3-5.5 hrs" trip badge beside the fare — so plan on a range rather than a figure (as of August 2026). The departure is summer-scoped and hedged in the operator's own words: daily summer scheduled departures at 9am from Halfmoon Wharf, usually 9am daily and usually somewhere between 9am and 10:30am, with bookings essential, an invitation to get in touch for the winter service, and the note that outside those daily summer departures the trip can also be booked on demand (as of August 2026). The booking channel depends on which of the operator's pages you land on: its Rakiura Track destinations page asks you to fill in the enquiry form or call the booking team, while the product page carries a Book now control and a booking calendar and prices the trip from $60 an adult and $40 a child — and all requests are subject to minimum fares that the operator's staff check manually before confirming (as of August 2026). That $60 is the scheduled service's rate: the same page prints the scheduled service at a $10 per adult discount from the operator's on demand service and calls that scheduled service the cheaper of the two, so the on-demand departure a winter or off-schedule date needs sits $10 an adult above the figure quoted here, and the same page flags its fares as subject to change from 1 October 2026 while warning that changes are possible inside the current season's advertised rates too (as of August 2026). And the plainest argument for a third day is the crossing itself — a weather cancellation costs a two-day trip the day it was built around, and a three-day trip only a rearrangement.
4.FAQ
Is one day enough in Halfmoon Bay?
RealNZ's own answer is yes, there are many activities you can fit into one day, and it points at its reservations team for suggested itineraries. On its printed timetable, though, a day trip is less than a full day: the block valid until 30 September 2026 leaves a little under four hours ashore and the 1 October 2026 pattern a little over five, and what fits inside that depends on which block you sail — RealNZ schedules two guided activities into the five hours its own Queenstown day-trip package spends on the island (as of August 2026). If the crossing is cancelled for weather there is no spare day behind it, which is the argument for staying a night.
Is it called Halfmoon Bay or Oban?
Both, and they are one place. LINZ's Gazetteer records the settlement under the dual name Halfmoon Bay / Oban — with the status "Unofficial Recorded", on a register LINZ describes as covering "official and recorded place names" — and DOC writes of "Stewart Island/Rakiura's main settlement of Oban in Halfmoon Bay", which it also calls the only township on Stewart Island/Rakiura. Operators use both names on the same street, with DOC's visitor centre and the museum giving Main Road, Oban addresses while Rakiura Charters gives 10 Main Road, Halfmoon Bay. It is not the Half Moon Bay in Auckland's Howick, nor any of the other bays of that name that LINZ records elsewhere in New Zealand.
Do I have to pay the Stewart Island visitor levy?
Probably, and it is small. Southland District Council's fee schedule sets an inbound levy of $7.50 and an outbound levy of $7.50 from passengers of approved operators, and $15.00 for a freedom traveller, under its own 2012 empowering Act (as of August 2026). The council lists six exemptions: residents, ratepayers and tenants of the island and their partners or dependents; beneficiaries of the Rakiura Maori Land Trust and people with an ownership interest in a Maori land block on the island; visitors who stay 21 continuous days or more; owners of a transport vessel and people employed under contract to work on one; anyone whose visit is entirely within the boundaries of Rakiura National Park; and anyone under 18 on the date of arrival (as of August 2026). Whether you ever see it as a separate line depends on the carrier, because Stewart Island Flights states the levy is included in its airfare (as of August 2026).
Can you see kiwi in winter?
Yes, but not on every tour. RealNZ publishes two seasons for its Stewart Island Wild Kiwi Encounter that do not agree — its comparison table gives October to April and its own FAQ gives October to May — and gives November to March for its Wild Kiwi & Culture Encounter, so what the comparison table and the FAQ both support is that neither encounter is published as running in June, July, August or September (as of August 2026). Of the kiwi tours this guide covers, the two that publish any operation through the winter months are Ulva's Guided Walks, whose evening kiwi spotting at Mamaku Point runs year-round excluding the month of June and, in the operator's own examples, evenings when fireworks are likely to be set off — 1 January, 5 November, 25 December and 31 December — departs daily after sunset from $155 per person with its transfers to the reserve and back to accommodation included, and is not suitable for children under the age of 12, and Ruggedy Range Wilderness Experience, at NZ$175 an adult for three hours or NZ$150 for two, plus an additional NZ$20 per person to a maximum of NZ$50 if your accommodation is beyond the immediate vicinity of Oban, and which rules its tour not suitable for the elderly or children below the age of 12 years, except at the discretion of the guide (as of August 2026). Ruggedy Range departs daily subject to demand, minimum numbers and weather conditions and asks for four people, though during the off-season it names as May to September it may run at its discretion for three with a NZ$35 per-person surcharge (as of August 2026). It puts its main operating season at October through till April and says it operates most of the off-season subject to feasible numbers while warning it will have some weeks when it does not operate, so ask it about your month rather than assuming either way (as of August 2026).
How many days does the Rakiura Track take?
DOC publishes it as a 3-day, 32 km loop. That same length is printed on Rakiura Charters' Port William page, while the same operator's Rakiura Track destinations page gives the complete circuit as 29 km — so treat 29 km as belonging to the page it sits on rather than to the operator, and plan on the land manager's number. Plan the crossing days around the walk rather than inside it, because every hut and campsite must be booked in advance all year round and the maximum stay at each is 2 nights (as of August 2026).
5.Before you go
Several of this trip's bookings cannot be left late, and the requirements named here are among the ones this guide states rather than all of them, let alone all the gates the island's operators publish: DOC requires every hut and campsite on the Rakiura Track to be booked in advance all year round, Ulva's Guided Walks states that prior bookings are essential for both its Ulva Island and its kiwi spotting tours, as does Ruggedy Range for its kiwi spotting, Aihe operates all trips subject to prior booking and to suitable weather and sea conditions, and Rakiura Charters calls bookings essential on its Port William departure and treats an online Ulva Island reservation as a request its staff still have to check before it is confirmed (as of August 2026). Sort your cash before you sail, too, because RealNZ says there are no banks on the island and that the ATM in the 4 Square can only pay out against a New Zealand bank card, although most places have EFTPOS and credit card facilities (as of August 2026). DOC's Rakiura National Park Visitor Centre on Main Road, two minutes' walk from the ferry terminal and the flight centre, sells hut tickets and Great Walk bookings and hires beacons, maps and lockers, and it opens Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4 pm and Saturdays and public holidays 9:15 am to 2:15 pm, closed on Sundays and Christmas Day — worth noting, because Stewart Island Flights prints Saturday and Sunday departures in both of its schedules (as of August 2026).
6.Sources
Every fact in this guide traces to official and operator pages at doc.govt.nz, realnz.com, stewartislandflights.co.nz, southlanddc.govt.nz, ulva.co.nz, aihe.co.nz, rakiuracharters.co.nz, ruggedyrange.com, rakiuramuseum.co.nz, gazetteer.linz.govt.nz and linz.govt.nz, checked between 7 and 16 August 2026.