Mike Yardley recounts his adventures in Haast on New Zealand's West Coast.

The Haast River boasts some breathtaking scenery. "As the old man would say, we're off like a dog shot in the arse," says Lindsay Kain in classic West-Coast-South-Island-New-Zealand-clipped-drawl.

Guide to the best surf conditions for Haast Beach including swell direction, wind, and tide, plus travel details like best season, water quality and parking.

Snake enthusiast Bill Haast, 100, provided thousands of samples of snake venom to pharmaceutical laboratories each year.

Haast’s eagle, the largest eagle ever known, once ruled New Zealand's skies, preying on giant moa. This formidable predator, potentially inspiring Māo ...

Life Extinct New Zealand bird hunted like an eagle and ate like a vulture The Haast’s eagle had a beak and talons suited for capturing live prey, but its skull was adapted for ripping out organs ...

Google Maps had shown the trip between Haast and Wānaka would take 10 hours 48 minutes, via Arthur's Pass, Geraldine and Twizel.

Bill Haast, a pioneering snake expert, died this past week at the age of 100. He was director of the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, where he extracted venom from the world's most poisonous ...