7 May 2025

Heading off: farmers and the move to high-country tourism

From Afternoons, 1:40 pm on 7 May 2025

Heading Off is our weekly travel segment where we pick a destination and learn what's it's like to visit, what you'll see and what you can do. 

Today we're heading to Te Waipounamu - to speak to Jonathan Wallis who manages Minaret Station at Lake Wānaka

Minaret station has been owned by his family since 1995 and like many farming families across the motu, the Wallis' have been diversifying their income through high-country tourism.