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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks atb.

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Speaker 2: Travel. Correspondent Mike Yardley is with us this morning, focusing

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Speaker 2: on the duel in Tauaipo, Namu, the South Island that

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Speaker 2: is Glenorchy.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Mike giorder Jack, good morning.

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Speaker 2: You know, Glenorchy has long been lauded for its kind

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Speaker 2: of eco conscious brand of tourism, but is it noticeable?

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Speaker 3: It's all encompassing, Jack.

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Speaker 4: Here, they proudly strut the eco stripes, and I think

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Speaker 4: rightly so, because it's such a close knit village, as

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Speaker 4: you know, and sustainability just seems to be steeped in

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Speaker 4: the DNA. It's a really good fit as well, because

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Speaker 4: unlike the buzz and bling of Queenstown, Glenorky is like

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Speaker 4: this antidote. It's all just so restoative and rusting you

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Speaker 4: can get there. And one of the latest community buy

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Speaker 4: ins to this whole sustainability ethos is astrotourism, which is

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Speaker 4: a very good fit, you know, in terms of a

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Speaker 4: regenerative approach to tourism. So the Glenorky area has just

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Speaker 4: become in the last couple of months, the world's twenty

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Speaker 4: third International Dark Sky Century. So that's also very good

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Speaker 4: for the bird life. You know, the birds don't like

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Speaker 4: too much light pollution.

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Speaker 2: So it's oh, I didn't know that. So does that

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Speaker 2: mean we have two or do we have more than

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Speaker 2: two because we've got take a pore as well, right, we.

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Speaker 4: Do, yes, and then we've got reserve, so I think

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Speaker 4: great barrier.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a dark sky reserve.

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Speaker 4: Yes, oh yeah, We've got all these sort of like yeah,

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Speaker 4: of ye great places to see the star.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nicely. So why is missus woolli so popular?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, right on the entrance to the village, this place,

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Speaker 4: Missus Woolli's is like a hymn to localism and craft

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Speaker 4: and community spirit.

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Speaker 3: So it's an emporium of goodness.

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Speaker 4: It's part general store, part cafe, park gift shop. And

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Speaker 4: this select of local wall products is absolutely superb, nearly

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Speaker 4: as good jack as the full Monte Gelato Sundays, which

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Speaker 4: they served them in a handmade waffled cup, very very

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Speaker 4: much recommended, and all profits from the sales that Missus

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Speaker 4: Woolli's benefit the local community Trust are really big into

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Speaker 4: giving BACKU.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice if you go for a jetboat down the

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Speaker 2: Dark River. How does that compare to some of the

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Speaker 2: other rivers in the region. What can you expect?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a cranking ramp to the river's upper reaches

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Speaker 4: and you've got mounta Spiring National Park and roving you

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Speaker 4: as you go. The traverse is massive, ninety kilometers, so

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Speaker 4: you actually reach the heart of the main divide in

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Speaker 4: the peaks don the names of Greek gods. You've got

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Speaker 4: Pluto and Chaos and Poseidon layering down.

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Speaker 3: But for the night Tahou Jack. I found this fascinating.

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Speaker 4: Their oral history suggests they first discovered Ponamu here hundreds

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Speaker 4: of years ago at Quaraca, which is this mountain shaped

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Speaker 4: like a reclining giant and a huge scene of greenstone

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Speaker 4: tumbled from its side. So this is close to Mount Ernslaw.

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Speaker 4: Nitahu consider Ernslaw as the guardian of the precious stone.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, all of this predates the West Coast greenstone trade,

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Speaker 4: which I found absolutely illuminating.

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Speaker 3: So really rich misty history.

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Speaker 2: See I don't know that I knew that that. I

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Speaker 2: think I always thought the West co is going to

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Speaker 2: game first, right, But yeah, okay, very interesting. So Gnorky's

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Speaker 2: kind of a top tier destination for Middle Earth fans, right.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So for something easy, you can always take a

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Speaker 4: forest walk in Paradise, always a crowd pleaser.

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Speaker 3: And if you want to walk.

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Speaker 4: In the footsteps of Bilbo Beggins and friends as they

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Speaker 4: strode out into the misty mountains, head to the Arnslaw

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Speaker 4: Burn Track. This is a celestial slice of Middle Earth.

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Speaker 4: So the starring attraction on this track are the escating

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Speaker 4: waterfalls in Mount Earnslaw's spectacular hanging Glacier. It is a

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Speaker 4: twenty seven k hike out and back, so it is

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Speaker 4: for the intrepid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, is tough climbs and it's an all day affair,

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Speaker 3: but you will not regret it.

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Speaker 2: Time Magazine ranked Headwater's Eco Lodge is one of the

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Speaker 2: world's greatest places, which is a pretty big call. So

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Speaker 2: what is all of uss about?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know those top one hundred lessons.

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Speaker 3: They're a bit diamond, doesn't aren't they.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, if you're coming on one in

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Speaker 2: Time Magazine, you're taking.

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Speaker 1: It, aren't you?

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Speaker 2: That's going on the LinkedIn.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you certainly don't decline it. No, that's true. Headwater

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Speaker 3: is just gorgeous.

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Speaker 4: It is this hand crafted masterclass in sustainable design, extraordinary

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Speaker 4: local arts. I've got like this serpentine floor, of mosaics

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Speaker 4: of braided rivers.

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Speaker 3: I just loved that so much. Upcycling.

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Speaker 4: Many of the space in the lodge that've been crafted

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Speaker 4: from repurposed walksheds.

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Speaker 3: It's a net.

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Speaker 4: Positive energy accommodation provider, which is pretty cool. And it

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Speaker 4: certainly does not skimp on comforts you are in like country, qucy, country,

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Speaker 4: comfort galore.

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Speaker 2: Nice, nice. So what impress you the most.

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Speaker 3: Well, the beauty of it.

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Speaker 4: It's a very woodsy lodge, lots of chalets scattered about

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Speaker 4: the grounds. And this was actually the first accommodation facility

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Speaker 4: ever to be built to Living Building Challenge Standards, which

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Speaker 4: apparently embodies the world's most rigorous sustainability guideline.

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Speaker 3: So it's right up there.

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Speaker 4: But the other big impressors, whether you're staying in a

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Speaker 4: house or not, make it booking for a chef's choice dinner.

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Speaker 4: This is all about locally harvested products. They've got a

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Speaker 4: massive kitchen garden. The chefs will go foraging all over

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Speaker 4: the side around Glenorky and best of all this bacon

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Speaker 4: of regenerative tourism also gives back. So like missus Wallly's,

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Speaker 4: all profits from Headwaters go back to the local.

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Speaker 2: Oh so that's great. Yeah, that's so good. And so

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Speaker 2: when you're heading back to Queenstown heading north again, why

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Speaker 2: should you check out Bob's Cove.

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Speaker 4: It's such a languid lakeside cove and you definitely need

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Speaker 4: to take a stroll in the forest by Bob's Cove

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Speaker 4: because you'll see firsthand the rewards of all of the

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Speaker 4: back baking, breack baking work that the local conservationists from

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Speaker 4: Southern the Lake Sanctuary have done. So they've revegetated the

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Speaker 4: cove and natives, They've trapped thousands of predators.

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Speaker 3: The BirdLife has bounced back big time.

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Speaker 4: That's what you really notice in this trust. They do

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Speaker 4: incredible Workjack. Just three months ago they released Takahee into

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Speaker 4: Reese Valley just behind Glenorky. So they are doing God's

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Speaker 4: work in Glenorky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh it sounds so good. I'm actually down there

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Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks. First time I've been to

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Speaker 2: Glenorky and I reckon at least a decade. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: really looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: You've got to go to headquarters for that dinner. Jack.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I would just have to just have go

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Speaker 2: and have a quiet conversation with my wife and explain

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Speaker 2: that there might be a couple of weeks through expenses

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Speaker 2: on the credit cards you might not have been expecting.

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Speaker 2: But in mind, Hey, thank you so much. We'll put

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Speaker 2: all of those trips up on the newstalk Wasb website

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Speaker 2: of course, and catch again next week.

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Speaker 3: Mike, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Jack.

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Speaker 2: That is Mike Audie, our travel corresponding thank you very

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Speaker 2: much for your texts. Turns out I'm not the only

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Speaker 2: one who's got the bird feeder out at this time

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Speaker 2: of the year. Jack, We've got a few khaka here

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Speaker 2: in Murdy. Why Jack, too much sugar and the syrup

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Speaker 2: for the birds attracts nasty wasps. I agree, it's such

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Speaker 2: a joy to watch the birds, especially the bell birds.

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Speaker 2: Have a great day, says Mal and Jack. I'll see

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Speaker 2: your fan tail and raise you or get this a

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Speaker 2: core cuckle on my front lawn. Wow, that's great. They're

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Speaker 2: bigger than they look on the pictures, says Ben. Presume

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Speaker 2: that's a North Island cor cuckle. Otherwise we need to

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Speaker 2: get the Newsbalk's he'd be breaking use sting up and going.

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Speaker 2: Ninety two. Ninety two is the text number if you

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