Jump on your bike. Spend a day on the St Helens Mountain Bike Trails – perhaps a mountains-to-sea ride on the 42km Bay of Fires trail. Or view larapuna from the water with Bay of Fires Eco Tours – this is one of the country’s most magnificent stretches of coastline, and includes the Bay of Fires. The tours run from October to May.
Follow water with wine at Priory Ridge Wines, with a cellar door in a 1920s shearing shed on the outskirts of St Helens. Consider lunch at Sco & Co. and Lifebuoy Cafe, and dinner at any of the local restaurants.

Take an evening stroll along the cloud-white sands of the Bay of Fires.

Stay overnight at St Helens or the Bay of Fires.