Ship Creek Glacier Highway West Coast New Zealand
Photo & Vacation Spot

Along the Glacier Highway on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, a beautiful and desolate place to stop is Ship Creek.

While visiting the beach at Ship Creek on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, one will find serenity, beautiful scenery, coastal plants and a secluded sandy beach. In the sand dunes, plants grow freely around the driftwood which has washed onto the beach as the quiet river flows on one side of Ship Creek and the waves off the Tasman Sea crash against the coastline on the other.

Rarely are other people found along the beach, but sea lions and seals may be spotted resting on the shores. Ship Creek was named after a strange piece of a boat from a shipwreck washed ashore in 1871 and after that, there was occasionally other pieces of the same ship found along these coastal shores.

Coastal sand dune plants at Ship Creek along Highway 6, the Glacier Highway, Westland, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.