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Hunt for icebergs and get a close-up view of a glacier face on an hour-long boat tour.
If you don a pair of walking shoes and head up the hill from Falcon Brae Villa on one of the property’s many trails, you’ll soon arrive at a peaceful bird-watching nook. Take a seat on the bench overlooking a tangle of forest – including some of the many thousands of mānuka and kānuka trees planted here as part of an ongoing programme to regenerate the land’s native flora and fauna – and watch and listen as the local birdlife, including tūī, kereru and pīwakawaka, goes about its day.