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Speaker 1: Haven't been building for something good in the Coromandel this summer,

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Speaker 1: isn't It looks good walking access to the cathedral cove.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure you're well aware of some reopen so

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Speaker 1: along with twenty five A, well, they could well be

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Speaker 1: booming the Corimandal meal insult is will this lend very

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Speaker 1: good morning to you?

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Speaker 2: Morning, Mike?

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Speaker 1: Can you do on very well? Thank you? How big

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Speaker 1: a thing is the cove in terms of you know,

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Speaker 1: bringing people to the region.

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is huge for us, but you know, it's

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Speaker 2: kind of an early Christmas present, isn't it for us?

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Speaker 2: And last year we had the early Christmas present with

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Speaker 2: the opening of twenty five A ahead of schedule. So it's

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Speaker 2: don't expect this to happen every year, Mike, But no,

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Speaker 2: it's big for us.

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Speaker 1: They've said December, didn't they. They said it will be

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Speaker 1: opened by December, and I think they've delivered on that.

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Speaker 2: So I wrote to the Minister on the first of

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Speaker 2: December twenty twenty three and I said, congratulations on your

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Speaker 2: new job, mate, We've got a problem here. Can you help?

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Speaker 2: And he came back to me and said, look, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to give you a commitment to have it open

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Speaker 2: by the first of December twenty twenty four and he

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Speaker 2: was as good as his word.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic And is it a permanent fix in terms of

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Speaker 1: what they've done infrastructurally speaking, this is a long term thing.

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Speaker 2: No, it's a temporary fix, Mike. And it's part of

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Speaker 2: a whole reconstruction or a development of the walking access

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Speaker 2: not just down to the cove, but the other bays.

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Speaker 2: We've got Gemstone Bay and Stingray Bay which are still

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Speaker 2: closed to access, but there's other there's historical sites there.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of work being done with between Doc

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Speaker 2: and Nati Hay who are local EWI and very very

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Speaker 2: collaborative and respectful work because we've got to respect, you know,

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Speaker 2: the katiarchy of the whole area. And there's some good work,

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Speaker 2: but it's in progress. It's probably another couple of years work.

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Speaker 1: Fantastical. I hope you have a very good summer with

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