Preservation Inlet

Abandoned Machinery at the Alpha Battery

Looking back toward Puysegur Point Lighthouse

Elenya anchored in Otago Retreat

Our first anchorage in Preservation Inlet was Cuttle Cove, the site of an old whaling station, then we moved across to Kisbee Bay, which was the site of the township of Cromarty that flourished when gold was mined and timber sawed here, but very little remains today. We went for a walk up to the Morningstar mine and Alpha Battery and stopped in to say hi to the caretakers at Preservation Lodge. Tori was looking forward to trying her luck when the scallop season opened in October, but only managed to get two. On our last day in Fiordland we walked up to Puysegur Point Lighthouse. The swells breaking on the rocks below were quite impressive and we wondered what they would have been like in the 7 m swells we had had recently.