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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 AB.

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Speaker 2: Just before we get to travel, it is an absolutely

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Speaker 2: beautiful day in Wellington. But that's about the only good

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Speaker 2: news I have for you. From the Basin Reserve, the

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Speaker 2: black Caps are our ninety seven four seven of course,

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Speaker 2: playing England there in the second test. Jasan pinealval with us.

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Speaker 2: Short lived talk sport, but time to talk travel now.

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Speaker 2: Mike Yardley is with me. Good morning, Good.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Francisca. I'm so depressed by the crick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, it's just let's talk about penguins, because penguins

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Speaker 2: just make you feel good, right, a feel good animal.

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Speaker 2: And in summertime it is a great time to enjoy

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Speaker 2: the penguin colony.

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Speaker 3: In Amorrow it is ground zero for flipp and fun.

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Speaker 3: I have to say my first job and Radio Francisca

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Speaker 3: was in the Auamadou in the early nineties, so it's

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Speaker 3: amazing to see how that colony has really kicked on

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Speaker 3: because when I was there were only about thirty breeding pairs.

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Speaker 3: Today these hundreds of breeding pears that've been busy breeding

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Speaker 3: over the decades. So that nightly Penguin Parade as the

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Speaker 3: birds come home from the sea is lavish and intimate,

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Speaker 3: and the summer months is peak season for the nightly

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Speaker 3: parade because at the moment I checked, therese over three

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty penguins coming ashore right before you each

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Speaker 3: night to return home. So it's a really riveting encounter

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Speaker 3: at sundown.

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Speaker 2: They did the blue penguins, aren't they. That's the smallest

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Speaker 2: penguin in the.

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Speaker 3: World, little blue yep carara. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But this other wildlife there too, isn't there?

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Speaker 3: Well there is. The really cool thing about the summer

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Speaker 3: months for the penguin parade is that as they scamper

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Speaker 3: up the rocks like nervous nigels, they have to generally

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Speaker 3: navigate their way around all sorts of bellowing fur seals

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Speaker 3: who also sort of park up hit the same site.

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Speaker 3: So it's a really cool little primal interaction. The seals

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Speaker 3: do not eat the penguins, I hasten to add and

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Speaker 3: then just adjacent to the penguin colony for a true

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Speaker 3: dramatic spectacle. Sumter Wharf is amazing. So this was like

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Speaker 3: a Victorian era wharf where a lot of our early

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Speaker 3: frozen meat exports were shipped off to the world. Nowadays,

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Speaker 3: it's a relic, it's a deal. It's but it's been

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Speaker 3: consumed by the birds. So there are thousands of Otago

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Speaker 3: shags that have commandeered the wharf. They've been bitty breeding.

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Speaker 3: There's lots of chicks in their nests on the wharf.

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Speaker 3: At the moment. It's the world's biggest Otago shag colony.

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Speaker 3: It is a shagathon of epic proportions.

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Speaker 2: Whenever I think of Armora as well, I think of

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Speaker 2: the Victorian buildings there, those amazing historic buildings made out

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Speaker 2: of limestone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's right. Yeah, you've got those gorgeous old stately

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Speaker 3: banks in the Opera House on Thame Street. And then

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Speaker 3: just around the corner on Harvest Street. That is the

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Speaker 3: heart of the Victorian precinct because Harbor Street is home

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Speaker 3: to New Zealand's best preserved Victorian commercial streetscape, brilliantly restored

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Speaker 3: and repurposed, so it just brims the galleries and artisans

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Speaker 3: in Hospit. My favorite stops, I have to say, do

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Speaker 3: involve drinking, so there.

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Speaker 2: Is bad Stroke.

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Speaker 3: There is the Craftwork Brewery which is a Belgian inspired

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Speaker 3: the brewery, really cool spot. And then this stirring hospitality

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Speaker 3: treasure the Criterion Hotel. Now, this pub has been pouring

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Speaker 3: pints since the eighteen seventies in the same building. It's

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Speaker 3: been beautifully revitalized, really elegantly furnished, and all of its

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Speaker 3: storied history is sported on the walls of the bar

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Speaker 3: and the etery. The etery itself is fabulous because it's

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Speaker 3: just like a hymn to the region's produce. I would

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Speaker 3: suggest you whistle up and Alps to ocean platter, and

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Speaker 3: that way you can sample a bit of everything and

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Speaker 3: wash it down with a Criterion black Doris plum cider.

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Speaker 2: Have you done that? ELPs to Elp trail?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, not the whole hog. No, No, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Quite interested in that anyway, And that's for another day.

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Speaker 2: Anywhere else.

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Speaker 3: I've got my trainer wheels on franchise.

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Speaker 2: Anywhere else that you recommend to eat?

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Speaker 3: A couple of coick tips from age fans are white

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Speaker 3: Stone Cheese. The name will be very well known to

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Speaker 3: a lot of Kiwis because it's been a mainstay of

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Speaker 3: the New Zealand premium cheese scene for about four decades.

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Speaker 3: It's globally, it claims this cheese company, but I've got

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Speaker 3: twenty five varieties to nibble on and for the full

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Speaker 3: glory experience, the place to go is the white Stone

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Speaker 3: Cheese Diner in Deli. It's on Thames Street. You can

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Speaker 3: whizzle up a high cheese as you do. And I

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Speaker 3: have to say via double cream, Bree is unbeatable. One

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Speaker 3: other culinary rock star to add to your checklist. Riverstone,

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Speaker 3: just at the north of Owamadu. Bevan Smith is still

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Speaker 3: at the helm of that kitchen on his parents' farm.

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Speaker 3: All the produces hyper local because a lot of it

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Speaker 3: comes from the adjoining gardens. But it was really funny Francisco.

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Speaker 3: The locals said to me, they just go to Riverstone

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Speaker 3: to eat the cake. The cakes are so good. So

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Speaker 3: I had to and I surrendered to a slice of

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Speaker 3: gooseberry and black currant shortcake with vanilla bean ice cream. God,

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Speaker 3: it was good.

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Speaker 2: Hey, was there anything else unique about a well?

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Speaker 3: It is steampunk headquarters. So the Victorian Precinct has got

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Speaker 3: this outfit called Steampunk HQ. It is wacky, it's whimsical,

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Speaker 3: it's eccentric. It starts with this full scale train engine

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Speaker 3: outside the front, spitting fire and billowing smoke, and then

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Speaker 3: inside you've got a museum of all sorts of weird

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Speaker 3: contraptions and bizarre machinery, lots of copper and flickering lights,

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Speaker 3: and out the back a whole lot of projects that

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Speaker 3: are in various stages of being steampunked. It's sort of

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Speaker 3: like a cross of industrial age, Victoriana and science fiction.

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Speaker 3: And in fact, their website's probably got the best piece

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Speaker 3: of advice steampunk must be experienced rather than explained. I

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Speaker 3: think that's very you.

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Speaker 2: I think that is so true. I think that is

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Speaker 2: very true. Hey, Mike, just quickly good recommendations for places

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Speaker 2: to stay.

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Speaker 3: I do love coming across a really distinctive accommodation experience

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Speaker 3: with a really good backstory. And oh my goodness, there

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Speaker 3: is this place in Alamado I've just discovered called cassanover House.

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Speaker 3: So it was built in eighteen sixty one. It's the

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Speaker 3: oldest stone house in the region and it's been impeccably restored.

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Speaker 3: They've spent about a million bucks doing it up. It

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Speaker 3: is just breathtaking. And the same people who renovated Casanova

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Speaker 3: also renovated the Criterion Hotel Katrina and Brenda the Fabulous Hoze.

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Speaker 3: It's like a masterclass in Luxury Heritage living. Absolutely, you've

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Speaker 3: got a book that place.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic, lovely to chat Mike, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: all that. For more tips on summer tripping in Oamaru,

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Speaker 2: Mike's article is on the website news Talk zib dot

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Speaker 2: co dot mz forward slash Lifestyle, Forward slash travel. It

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