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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 at be.

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Speaker 2: Mike Hardley is our travel correspondent. He's taking us on

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Speaker 2: a trip this morning through the great outdoors on the

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Speaker 2: Sunshine Post. Hey Mike, Good morning Jack.

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Speaker 3: I was just going to say, with respect to the

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Speaker 3: New York Times and Biden, I actually think Jill Biden

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Speaker 3: holds the key here to pulling the ripcord, and I'm

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Speaker 3: just amazed that she still seems to be insisting he say,

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Speaker 3: in the race, At what point is this verge on

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Speaker 3: looking like elder abuse. Yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Think it does risk being really humiliating for him, and

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Speaker 2: for someone who's really cherished, you know, and has good

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Speaker 2: reason to cherish his record in public life and public service.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a huge risk that he completely destroys

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Speaker 2: that reputation by making the wrong decision here and look

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Speaker 2: behind closed doors, just to imagine the kind of conversations

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Speaker 2: that are happening by hind closed doors in the upper

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Speaker 2: echelons of power around the White House at the moment,

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Speaker 2: Because you know, I was amazing to look at the

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden, you know, after the debate last night, when

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden came managed she was hosting him with a

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Speaker 2: support party, and she was like, oh, great to go, Joe.

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Speaker 2: You answered all the questions. I was like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: good on you, since we're asked. But I just, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think I'm sure. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: those people closest to him kind of hold the key here,

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Speaker 2: including you know, his wife and and also his senior advisors,

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Speaker 2: because nothing about the performance made me think that he has,

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Speaker 2: you know, any real likelihood of beating truck. And that's

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Speaker 2: I've got to be honest, you know, that's a totally

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Speaker 2: different position than one I previously had. I had previously

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Speaker 2: you know, a year ago, I thought he's probably got it,

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Speaker 2: he's probably got it. But then seeing that last night

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Speaker 2: was just the deathmail for me. It was a yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 2: we'll wait and see what happens. I just think the

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Speaker 2: Dems have to be relieved that there's a bit of time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I mean they're better time. Not

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Speaker 2: a whole lot, but it's a little bit, you know.

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Speaker 3: Just the ones we're ligning to having an early debate.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, anyway, So, like I say, we're focusing

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Speaker 2: on the great outdoors on the Sunshine Coast this morning.

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Speaker 2: And there are more direct services these days right connecting

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Speaker 2: New Zealand to the Sunshine Coast.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, yeah, I think it underscores the growing love affair

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Speaker 3: we seem to have with the region. So in New

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Speaker 3: Zealand start their direct flights this week from Auckland to

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Speaker 3: Maruchi door and Jetstar is part of a big announcement

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Speaker 3: a week or so ago. They will be flying the

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Speaker 3: route from later this year. So the welcome mat to

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Speaker 3: the Sunshine Coast is being very thickly laid out to Jack.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice. Any mountains take your fancy, Well, this.

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Speaker 3: Is the thing. You've got one hundred kilometers of glittering

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Speaker 3: beaches at your disposal. But don't just throw your togs

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Speaker 3: in the suitcase, because there are some seriously seenic mountain

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Speaker 3: trails worth packing your boots. For. Two, you'll definitely want

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Speaker 3: to shmooze with the Sunshine Coasts rock Stars, those eleven

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Speaker 3: thrusting vertical rocky columns that comprise the Glasshouse Mountains. There

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Speaker 3: are so many trails you can take, but my favorite,

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Speaker 3: the one I would highly recommend, is the Mount Nunu hike.

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Speaker 3: And the reason for that is because it's got this

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Speaker 3: central position in that parade of mountain sisters. So you

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Speaker 3: just feel immersed in all of that glasshouse glory. When

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Speaker 3: you get to the top of Mount Nunu and it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's not hard work that walk. It's got a

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Speaker 3: few short, short steep sections, but it's certainly not strenuous.

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Speaker 2: Oh very good.

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Speaker 3: How about Coolam, Yes, north of Malulabar. I'm sure many

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Speaker 3: people who have been over to the Sunshine Coast when

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Speaker 3: and they can see Mount Coolam. It's like this volcanic

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Speaker 3: dome rising up from the coastline. Quite dramatic really. But

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Speaker 3: the funny thing is, and I do know Kiwi snigger

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Speaker 3: about this mountains in Australia. Now Mount Coolam. It's altitude

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Speaker 3: tops out at just two hundred meters, but it's a mountain.

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Speaker 3: The thing about it, though, is it's a twenty five

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Speaker 3: million year old lack alith. You don't come across a

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Speaker 3: laculithe every day, Jack, And even though it's only two

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Speaker 3: hundred meters, it is amazing the perspective going up two

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Speaker 3: wrap around panorama of the Sunshine coast when you are

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Speaker 3: on top of Mount Coolam and both walks, both Mount

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Speaker 3: Munu and Mount Coolam, you can knock both of those

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Speaker 3: off in about ninety minutes. Definitely do them early in

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's even in winter. You reckon. That's a that's

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Speaker 2: a key. Or maybe might not be so bad this

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. When I was over there a couple of

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Speaker 3: at about you know, six seven degrees, pretty fresh, but

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Speaker 3: by eleven o'clock she is tweety three, twenty four, twenty

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Speaker 3: five degree. Yeah, oh yes, go early.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, excuse my ignorance here, Yes, what's a lack of liith?

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Speaker 3: Well, from my schedule understanding, a laclith is formed by

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Speaker 3: a whole lot of magma pressing upwards and the rock,

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Speaker 3: the ignis rock forms into a dome like shape, and

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Speaker 3: that's that's what Mount Coola is.

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Speaker 2: Okay, very good. So I'm really putting you on this

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Speaker 2: one here. How do you spell it? L A C

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Speaker 3: C c O l I t h LACKO lift.

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Speaker 2: A list o l A list Okay, yes, no, very good.

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Speaker 2: It's an igneous intrusion. Very good. Do you go all learning?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I have won the lound sweet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Mike, that's a that's super impressive. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Where is good for whale watching?

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Speaker 3: Go out with Sunnery from Malula Bar and over the

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Speaker 3: course of four hours you will be treated to the

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Speaker 3: most magnificent spectacle of humpbacks at play. Lots of juveniles

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Speaker 3: in particular, and true to form, Jack, when you think juvenile,

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Speaker 3: you think show off. Yes, very flamboyant. With the breaching

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Speaker 3: off Malulabarb, obviously they form part of Australia's humpback Highway.

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Speaker 3: Typically they play host of forty thousand humpbacks cruising up

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Speaker 3: population is growing at about ten percent a year, which

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Speaker 3: is pretty impressive. So the other amazing insight I gleaned

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Speaker 3: been observing their migratory path incredibly consistent, so they stick

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Speaker 3: to the same north south track within one degree year

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Speaker 3: on year on a ten thousand kilometer return swamp. That

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Speaker 2: One degree? That's extraordinary. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. Okay. What

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Speaker 2: makes Caloundra such a popular holiday base?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would really recommend it because I think it

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Speaker 3: has been somewhat underrated by Kiwi's as a holiday hot spot.

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Speaker 3: But it's the southern bell of the Sunshine Coast, so

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Speaker 3: it's botimlulabar. But the thing about Caloundra they have got

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Speaker 3: the most insane abundance of beaches and bays fringing the

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Speaker 3: town and the headland. For example, there was this gorgeous

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Speaker 3: Bribe Island. So it's very smooth water and it's such

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Speaker 3: a great spot to do a bit of kayaking and

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Speaker 3: if you want a side serving of wildlife while you're

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Speaker 3: doing your kayaking, so many wading birds. You'll be floating

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Speaker 3: along with pelicans on a we float. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: just so cool. And then in the center of town,

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Speaker 3: in Caloundra, King's Beach, Queensland is right. This is one

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Speaker 3: And at the end of the beach the most spectacular

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Speaker 3: ocean pools complex and it's adorned with sail shades so

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Speaker 3: if it's getting really hot on the day, you can

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Speaker 3: still swim in seawater in these ocean pools and the

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Speaker 2: Oh nice. And how big and how long is their

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Speaker 3: Oh wow? What a wop are twenty five kilometers all

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Speaker 3: around the tucks and folds of Caloundra. So whether you're

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Speaker 3: pathway and it will take you to all of those

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Speaker 3: fabulous beaches they have like Shelley and Moffatt, Golden Kings,

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Speaker 3: Dicky Beach. There's this fantastic memorial up on the headland

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Speaker 3: is to h a Centaur. I've never heard about this,

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Speaker 3: but this was an Australian the hospital ship and it

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Speaker 3: was sunk just off the coast of Caloundra by a

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Speaker 3: Japanese submarine during World War Two. It killed two hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty people. They were basically nervous on a hospital ship.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, I've done a gorgeous memorial there to the centaur.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, make that pathway your holiday highway while you

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Speaker 3: gaze out on the humpback highway. Check.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very good. Hey, thank you so much, Mike.

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Speaker 2: the moon. Really a lot of lacklists on the Moon

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Speaker 3: The some of them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah oh really yeah yeah, so there you go. Okay there,

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Speaker 2: but also not to be confused with a batholis or

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Speaker 2: a lot Oh I know that was concerned to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so that you got your lapoliths, your batholis and your

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Speaker 2: we're all learning. Thank you so much, Milly. All of

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Speaker 2: Mike's tips for wintering over in the Sunshine Coast to

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Speaker 2: be up on the news talks, he'd be website. It's

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