The Store people at Kēkerengū are invariably friendly and onto-it, and they front an irresistible café as well as the new camp site next door.

At just over an hour south of Picton this is the best place to park up after the late ferry crossing from Welly. Just rock on in, wake to the surf, and pay (hardly anything) for your over-nighter at the Store café when you pick up your first long black of the day. But Kēkerengū is so naturally pretty and the café and the landscaping and shower block have such good design IQ you could turn up way earlier and be twice as happy.

Reviewed almost 4 years ago and experienced in December 2020