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The Weekender // Exploring Otago
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The legacy of East Otago
"As I approach Allison Paton’s house, I can see her leaning out of an upstairs window, aiming a shotgun at a rabbit in the veggie patch below. It’s everything I’d hoped for from a woman whose full address is 'Morrisons, The Pigroot', and who turns out blueberry pies by the dozen. Without a clean shot, she leaves the rabbit to its devices and greets us at the door warmly. Paton, a fit, tanned grandmother of nine, shows us through her rambling cottage garden and historic home—the former Morrisons post office.
"Comparatively little has changed since the 1860s when The Pigroot was busy with the traffic of gold miners bound for Central Otago..."
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Swimming for her life
Congratulations to Caitlin O'Reilly who yesterday became the youngest person—and only the sixth person ever—to achieve the triple crown of NZ marathon swimming; crossing Cook Strait, Lake Taupo, and Foveaux Strait.
She embarked at 10:40am yesterday from Stewart Island in good conditions and powered north under the watchful eye of open-water swimming legend Phil Rush and local skipper Zane Smith (whose father piloted NZ swimming legend Meda McKenzie across Foveaux in 1979). Despite encountering tidal chop near the finish, she made landfall on the mainland at sunset, becoming the 9th person to swim the strait.
Caitlin is 16 years old. What a legend.
PHOTO: GARETH COOKE
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Where next for the Catlins?
"The area known as the Catlins lies between the lower reaches of the Clutha and Mataura Rivers, but I like to think of it as the coast between two lighthouses, at Nugget Point and Waipapa Point—perhaps because they signify the precarious nature of human existence in this part of the country.
"They stand as pillars on land’s end, concrete bulwarks against the Roaring Forties, the wind that makes the crowns of trees grow sideways, like plumes of smoke."
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Salt, sand and snapper
Back in 1994, Warren Judd and Arno Gasteiger stood alongside about 1000 fishermen who “flung themselves into the surf of New Zealand’s longest beach—Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē/90 Mile Beach—in the hope of landing the grandaddy snapper and taking away a $50,000 prize”.
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The sea lions next door
Sea lions are a regular feature of Dunedin life. Dog walkers and beach strollers are used to seeing big males on the beach—mountainous piles of hairy flesh heaping sand over themselves to keep cool, while flies bother their snouts. Groups of young males can also be seen playing in the surf at popular spots like Sandfly Bay and Allans Beach, and females, too, are becoming a more common sight around the city.
“We have these really busy urban beaches like St Clair and St Kilda,” says Jordana Whyte of the New Zealand Sea Lion Trust. “Sea lions like to come up between the flags in the summer.”
In 2015, a young male sea lion sauntered through two sets of automatic sliding doors and a busy café to take a dip with swimmers in the St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool.
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Land Rover's Great Drives of New Zealand
The southeast corner of the South Island is a remarkably beautiful area renowned for its coastal forests, wildlife, beaches and scenery. Mercifully, the Catlins hasn’t been subjected to excessive tourism development. What services exist for tourists—the campgrounds, backpackers, homestays and specialist ‘eco-tourism’ operations are small-scale and low impact, and this feels right for the area.
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