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Wilderness Guides NZ Queen Charlotte Track

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Happy New Year!

As another year dawns in the Marlborough Sounds, we wish you and yours a very happy 2023.

It's a good time to reflect on how far we have come over the past year in this brave new Covid world.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Marlborough Sounds soon!

Steve, Juliet, and the Wilderness Guides team

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Our Invitation to You...
A new dawn is on the horizon for New Zealand tourism.

Never has there been a better time to appreciate all that we have on our own doorstep. We're excited at the prospect of showing you our backyard.

The Queen Charlotte Track in the Marlborough Sounds is known as the finest and most diverse coastal track in New Zealand.

Located at the top of the South Island, and it is accessible by boat from Picton to its beginning at the scenic and historic reserve of Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte Sound. The Queen Charlotte Track is 72km long and most people walk the track over four days, although there is the ability to do any combination from one to five days.

Gibbons Family

Wilderness Guides has been part of the tourism landscape in the Marlborough Sounds for 23 years. We invite you to explore the Marlborough Sounds and Queen Charlotte Track with us.

Our team looks forward to showing you around - this is where your adventure begins.

Juliet & Steve Gibbons (here with son Ben and daughter Lizzie)
Wilderness Guides Marlborough Sounds

The Queen Charlotte Track with Wilderness Guides NZ

The Queen Charlotte Track in the Marlborough Sounds is known as the finest and most diverse coastal track in New Zealand.
It is located at the top of the South Island, near the famous Marlborough wine region, and is accessed by boat from Picton to the beginning at the scenic and historic reserve of Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte Sound.

This is an iconic historic place, one that is steeped in both Maori and European history, and is a place all New Zealanders should visit.

The remote beauty of the
Queen Charlotte Track Awaits

The Marlborough Sounds and the Queen Charlotte Track is the ultimate place to hike, mountain bike and sea kayak with Wilderness Guides as you follow in the footsteps of those gone before. Never has there been a better time to explore!

Juliet, Steve and their team live, work and play in this fantastic region - your guides are local people. Let them show you the Queen Charlotte Track and Marlborough Sounds.


Call us on +64 3 5735432. Freephone (NZ only): 0800 266 266
Freephone (Aus only): 1800 281 827
Or drop us a line at info@wildernessguidesnz.com

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