Heading down to Granity with my grand son second week of school holidays,does anyone have any tips on Stony and Britannia Streams or placers to go in the area
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Hi Dirtfishin, I was in the area about 3 weeks ago, and I passed a sign from DoC, close to the highway to say that the track was closed, due to slips.
However, you may still want to drive into the carpark, and then start walking in, as I do not know where the slip is. From the carpark to the start of the fossicking site is about 20-25min. Good luck!
Thanks BPT
Do you know if its worth going up there,so far I haven’t heard anything good about the place.?
You can find a decent amount of colour if you can get to the bedrock but it is defintley not the richest of sites overall. It is a pretty awesome stream though so if you just want a bit of fun go for it as there is gold just not crazy amounts.
good one, we will go for a walk.
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So much for Otago gold, stopped the night at a reserve near Arrowtown I went down the river to look for some gold wile the wife went and looked around town.
When we got home there was a letter in the post, $800 parking fine.
Man does that place suck.
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That’s so wrong. The whole area gets avoided by a lot of nz landers because of that sort of beauracratic attitude to tourists
As nz residents we should be allowed to spend the night anywhere in a vehicle .
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The problem generally isn’t NZ residents, its all the backpackers living out of cars and crapping in the bushes. I totally agree we should be able to park where we want but I don’t know the answer of how to stop places being trashed, we have seen some horrors. We spend months at a time living in a campervan both here and in Europe and you can’t go for a walk in France without seeing bog paper everywhere! Norway has a right to roam where you can camp anywhere you like (even tents) that’s 150m away from a building and has no signs. They don’t have any of our BS self containment rules for vans and the place is spotless, they don’t seem to attract the backpackers that we get. Queenstown council have the biggest fines, we are there now and its $75 a night minimum for a tiny pitch in a campsite. There are 3 designated overnight parks at Arrowtown but you have to arrive after 6pm and leave by 8am which is never going to work as people get in before 6 and then you are screwed.
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