

Balclutha’s Clyde St is silent and empty during the first few hours of Level 4 lockdown yesterday morning. Photo: Richard Davison : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets
Balclutha’s Clyde St is silent and empty during the first few hours of Level 4 lockdown yesterday morning. Photo: Richard Davison : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets


In central Invercargill, those looking to find a park outside their essential service workplace would have found it an easy task yesterday. Photo: Laura Smith : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets
In central Invercargill, those looking to find a park outside their essential service workplace would have found it an easy task yesterday. Photo: Laura Smith : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets


Under blue skies and in a blue moon, it has been many a year since the lakefront of Wanaka has been totally devoid of people and cars. Photo: Kerrie Waterworth : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets
Under blue skies and in a blue moon, it has been many a year since the lakefront of Wanaka has been totally devoid of people and cars. Photo: Kerrie Waterworth : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets


Harbour St, in Oamaru’s Victorian precinct, is empty on day one of the Covid-19 lockdown. Photo: Rebecca Ryan : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets
Harbour St, in Oamaru’s Victorian precinct, is empty on day one of the Covid-19 lockdown. Photo: Rebecca Ryan : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets


Ballarat St, Queenstown, was eerily quiet yesterday. Photo: Tracey Roxburgh : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets
Ballarat St, Queenstown, was eerily quiet yesterday. Photo: Tracey Roxburgh : Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets
Otago ghost towns: Lockdown empties the streets
Centres across the region fell eerily quiet yesterday, as the first day of a four-week Covid-19 lockdown took hold in the South. Queenstown’s...
