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Speaker 1: As much as we moan about them driving slow in

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Speaker 1: campers and making a mess of public toilets or the

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Speaker 1: buses corrugating that road to Lake Camp, we do like

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Speaker 1: the money that tourists bring to our area and Council

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Speaker 1: has been pushing hard this summer to get more here

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Speaker 1: with the likes of the Nowhere Comma. That's the important

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Speaker 1: part Comma worth Going campaign and also paying social influencers

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Speaker 1: to get us up on the world wide web. One

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Speaker 1: rather unexpected influencer, however, who made a bit of noise

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Speaker 1: about Mid Caniburry on our sister station News talks eb

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Speaker 1: on the weekend is travel Extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Mike Yardley Morning, Good morning, Luke mate.

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Speaker 1: This was awesome. It's about a ten minute peace which

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Speaker 1: we must go and share on our Hawken and we

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Speaker 1: Ashburton facebook page as well. But it's you just gushing

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Speaker 1: about a road trip centered mainly around the foothills. Ryan.

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Speaker 2: That's right, And I mean what I absolutely adore about

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Speaker 2: that whole Mid Canterbury Foothills heartland area is that it's

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Speaker 2: so underrated, Like it's not something that you see massive

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Speaker 2: billboards about in terms of projecting New Zealand to the world.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's got all the elements that makes

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Speaker 2: our nation so special and in some ways untouched in

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Speaker 2: that it's so uncrowded. That's what I laugh about the

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Speaker 2: mid Kenniby Heartland, that, yeah, you're not jostling with the

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Speaker 2: great hordes of the world, and everything's so accessible, so easy,

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Speaker 2: the locals are so friendly. It's also laid back and effortless.

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Speaker 2: It's really special.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, that's what the Council has been trying to capture,

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Speaker 1: and I think they've done a pretty good job of

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Speaker 1: it at all. Venus. So what were some of the

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Speaker 1: highlights of your trip here? You got on a few hikes, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I did. I really do rate Sharpland Falls because it

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Speaker 2: doesn't take a strenuous effort to knock it off.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you feel so accomplished at the end.

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Speaker 2: You do, You really do, and you can reward yourself

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Speaker 2: with a with a hop over to Meslin and a

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Speaker 2: son those magnificent Pocky pools.

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Speaker 1: So you did spend some time there. Did you go

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Speaker 1: to the family zone or the I think they call

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Speaker 1: it the Tranquility the adults only bar.

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yep, tranquility Pools. Yes, straight to the swim

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Speaker 2: up swim up bar Luke. Absolutely, I felt like I

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Speaker 2: needed to really pend on myself.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't wonder why there was a two drink limit.

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Speaker 1: But then I had my first and two hour season,

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Speaker 1: or if you really brave, you can get a four

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Speaker 1: hour session. I quickly understood why.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, actually, I the first time I went to

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Speaker 2: the thermal pools was probably about eighteen months ago, and

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Speaker 2: I was there really early in the morning, so I

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Speaker 2: actually had that the floating breakfast, so I had end

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Speaker 2: excumed me in the pool, which was quite unusual. I

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Speaker 2: can't have ever had any floating in front of me before. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's dangerous if you've got the running eggs, though,

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Speaker 1: I'd probably be having to sort of big forgiveness Matt

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Speaker 1: Turner and his team be able to clean up those filters.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, But I mean that place is just

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Speaker 2: going off, isn't it. I was talking to the stuff,

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Speaker 2: and I was saying that some of the locals and

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Speaker 2: metsmen are complaining because you know how they get that

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Speaker 2: sort of priority or discounted access, but've been struggling to

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Speaker 2: get in because the place has been so full success.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean that's the danger, you know, with

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Speaker 1: shouting yourself from the rooftops or having such wonderful reviews

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Speaker 1: from yourself as right. You know, we run this fine

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Speaker 1: balance of yeah, we don't want that many people coming.

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Speaker 2: Well, the funny thing is, when I was talking to

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Speaker 2: Jack Came on Saturday, it actually became very hard to

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Speaker 2: determine what to actually mention and what to leave out

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Speaker 2: because and I think this is also one of the

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Speaker 2: real gems about that whole Foothills area. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: take the Huckertatic Conservation Reserve area alone, there are so

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Speaker 2: many gems within that reserve a lot of them. I

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Speaker 2: didn't even mention to Jack. So there's room to rome

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Speaker 2: right across that that forth Hells area. And I mean

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Speaker 2: those lakes. I really think those lakes are just so

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Speaker 2: world class in terms of their reflective quality, just the

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Speaker 2: elemental brilliance of the landscape. I just love it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so do we. And it was called to showcase

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Speaker 1: it with the likes of the Summer Challenge on the

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Speaker 1: weekend just being as well. So thank you for the

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Speaker 1: free publicity, I guess on behalf of mid Canterbury. And

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Speaker 1: we hope that a few come to visit.

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Speaker 2: But not that many, not the very quickly Luke. My

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Speaker 2: parents have got and they've had it for about thirty years,

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Speaker 2: a little hobby farm and churchy and they've got like,

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Speaker 2: you know, two sheep and half a goat sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Town is trying to be farmers sort of arrangement. So

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Speaker 2: we're actually, our whole family have just become so in

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Speaker 2: love really with the mid Canterbury region. We love Ashburst

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Speaker 2: and we love the Aviation Museum. So I but I

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Speaker 2: could actually probably roll out ten stories for Jack Tame

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Speaker 2: to do the Aerie of Justice