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Stewart Island
We recently spent six days on Stewart Island, located about 20 miles south of Invercargill on the southern end of the South Island. Stewart Island is roughly 25 by 40 miles in size, and has only about 450 inhabitants, most of them in the small town of Oban. We drove to Invercargill then flew to Oban in a 9-passenger plane. It was terrific to see Stewart Island from the air before landing. Oban is set on a bay, and the first photo shows the bay and some of the buildings.
The tiny Presbyterian church in Oban doesn't have a minister, and if a person is willing to lead the service and preach the sermon, they can stay in the manse for six nights. So that's what we did. It was my first time leading worship and preaching since I left Seattle. I really enjoyed celebrating communion as a part of a New Zealand congregation on World Communion Sunday. The low building beside the church is the manse where we stayed. It has a terrific view over the bay.
Another view of the bay, the church, and the manse, taken from the other side of the bay.
Dave did a lot of painting. Here he's standing on a dock doing a sketch of the church above him on the hill.
Stewart Island gets much more rain than Dunedin does, so the vegetation is much denser. From a distance the landscape looks a fair amount like the Pacific Northwest with the water, islands, and trees, but the trees are almost entirely different species than we have in the Northwest. The island has beautiful beaches and bays. Below are four different places we liked.
The tiny Presbyterian church in Oban doesn't have a minister, and if a person is willing to lead the service and preach the sermon, they can stay in the manse for six nights. So that's what we did. It was my first time leading worship and preaching since I left Seattle. I really enjoyed celebrating communion as a part of a New Zealand congregation on World Communion Sunday. The low building beside the church is the manse where we stayed. It has a terrific view over the bay.
Another view of the bay, the church, and the manse, taken from the other side of the bay.
Dave did a lot of painting. Here he's standing on a dock doing a sketch of the church above him on the hill.
Stewart Island gets much more rain than Dunedin does, so the vegetation is much denser. From a distance the landscape looks a fair amount like the Pacific Northwest with the water, islands, and trees, but the trees are almost entirely different species than we have in the Northwest. The island has beautiful beaches and bays. Below are four different places we liked.
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