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‘Aotearoa is and always will be beautiful’: New Zealand readers’ favourite wild places

Cathedral Bay, Coromandel, New Zealand.
Cathedral Cove on the Coromandel peninsula in New Zealand’s north. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Sea lion in the surf

I’m not sure where Ōtepoti Dunedin’s Middle Beach ends and St Kilda begins but we park close to the muralled surf club, on the road that was closed for a month in 2021 so a mother sea lion and her pup could have safe passage from the golf course to the beach. We head right, away from the glitz, the groynes, the sand sausages, the coffee shop chic and the actual good surfers at St Clair beach.

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