Ewes and their newborn lambs enjoy some time on the beach at Cable Bay, Urupukapuka Island. Photos / S Curtis Where else can you watch newborn lambs basking on a beach while oystercatchers comb ...

This sunny spring weekend they are so chocka I can imagine the marine equivalent of one of those flight path maps ... at Otehei Bay, on Urupukapuka, the largest island in the Bay of Islands.

Pest-free Urupukapuka Island is now host to a dozen of the nationally endangered brown teal duck, thanks to a group of volunteers. Guardians of the Bay of Islands chairwoman Fleur Corbett says ...

A map showing the areas of newly-discovered ... Te Rāwhiti in the Bay of Islands, about 3km from Urupukapuka. The funding news comes as authorities reveal exotic Caulerpa has been found recently ...