To the website of the Beaumont Residents Group. Beaumont is a small town nestled in the foothills of Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. Located in a fertile valley on the banks the Clutha River, Beaumont is the gateway to Central Otago, and is 106 km from the city of Dunedin. Clutha River from Beaumont Bridge. Beaumont - Watching The River.

Lowburn Before The Clyde Dam. I am loathe to believe that we will attach greater value to the sight of Lowburn Bay stocked to capacity with a few water skiers on the incoming weekend tide than we will to the enjoyment of hundreds at picnics on the shade-dappled grassy banks of the rolling Clutha at Bendigo, which must be one of the most beautiful stretches of flowing water in the world. A ferry or punt began operating on the Clutha River at Lowburn from about 1873, and the cros.

Conceived in departmental ambition, nourished in secrecy and permitted by political indifference for people, the Clutha proposals hardened into unpalatable fact.