Add to this the reasonable Two Oceans restaurant, superb springtime flora, a funicular railway to an old lighthouse and wild beaches complete with shipwrecks, and there is plenty to keep children entertained for a whole day.

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The Hollyford Track takes you through beech forest into the true Deep South of New Zealand and onto the West Coast beaches, remote and wild.

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The primary draw of the Hamptons is its spectacular beaches backed by fabulous homes, picket-fenced wild dunes and clustering gulls.

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The wild geography and topography around Killary, with its gorse-covered mountains, sweeping valleys and white sand beaches, presents both stark beauty and physical challenges.

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