Access Permits and Fees
The Department of Conservation issues 50 permits per day for visits to Kapiti Island Nature Reserve. Overnight stays are not permitted, and you can’t book more than three months in advance. During the summer, demand for permits is high, so it pays to book at least a month ahead for a weekday visit and a couple of months ahead for weekends. Plenty of spaces are available over early winter, spring and autumn, which offer equally good opportunities. Facilities on the island are limited to a shelter and toilets. Take your own lunch
and drinking water (at least two litres). Wear sturdy footwear and take warm clothing and a waterproof jacket. Permits are non-refundable and if the boat trip is cancelled because of bad weather you will need to either re-book on another day or forfeit the island permit. The total fees to visit Kapiti Island Nature Reserve are $9.00/adult and $4.50/child plus the cost of launch transport, which may vary between the two operators and according to the size of your party.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FORBI20030501.2.18
Bibliographic details
Forest and Bird, Issue 308, 1 May 2003, Page 13
Word Count
176Access Permits and Fees Forest and Bird, Issue 308, 1 May 2003, Page 13
Using This Item
For material that is still in copyright, Forest & Bird have made it available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This periodical is not available for commercial use without the consent of Forest & Bird. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this magazine please refer to our copyright guide.
Forest & Bird has made best efforts to contact all third-party copyright holders. If you are the rights holder of any material published in Forest & Bird's magazine and would like to discuss this, please contact Forest & Bird at editor@forestandbird.org.nz
Log in