The Catlins is a sparsely populated area located in the South-East coast of the South Island. A scenic road leads through the rugged coastal landscape and lush temperate woods. This region puts up with most of the storms and winds coming from the far south. The sea is rough here, a feature that attracts many surfers but it has also caused lot of martime disasters in the past. You can see yellow-eyed penguins, sea lions and albatross among others and walk through the best preserved petrified forest in the world. These fossils date from the Jurassic when New Zealand was still attached to Gondwana (180 milion of years ago), and even though it seems that you are looking at a fallen tree or a piece of bark, all that you can touch is just stone.
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