Bain Bay Walk
WalkWest Coast
- Grade
- Easy
- Walking time
- 5 hr
- Distance
- 7.2 km
- Dogs
- No dogs
Getting there
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How to get there, on doc.govt.nzStarts on Kumara-Inchbonnie Road, on the south end of Lake Brunner. Lake Brunner is inland from Greymouth, between SH 73 and SH 7.
Turn off SH 73 at Kumara into Kumara-Inchbonnie Road (21 km), or at Jacksons into Lake Brunner Road, which leads into Kumara-Inchbonnie Road (18 km).
Source: DOC Te Papa Atawhai.
Map
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About this place
Walk round Lake Brunner, then dense forest to Bain Bay where there are remains of tramways and other historic equipment.
The route
Start beside Lake Brunner (Moana) at the end of the short road opposite Lake Brunner Lodge on Kumara-Inchbonner Road. For the first kilometre, the track runs around the swampy lake margin mostly on boardwalk, with the option of walking on the lake beach in between. Note, both track and boardwalk can be immersed and impassable when the lake level is high. Cross Drake Point at moderate gradients, through dense forest featuring huge trees including kahikatea, matai and rimu, tall tree ferns and tangles of vines. At Bain Bay, the boardwalk gives way to a gravel track running close to the lake edge. About halfway around, a double row of piles in the lake are the remains of an old L-shaped wharf. There are also remains of tramways and other equipment that delivered logs to be towed across the lake to a sawmill at Te Kinga.
Source: DOC Te Papa Atawhai.
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Walks nearby
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Mount Te Kinga Track/Ara O Te Kinga
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Rakaitane Track
Easiest • 30 min • 1.2 km • 8.14 km away
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Easiest • 20 min • 600 m • 8.3 km away
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Sources
- DOC Tracks (API) · CC BY 4.0Crown Copyright: Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai. Data sourced from the DOC Developer Portal (api.doc.govt.nz).