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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: Our Travel correspondent Mike Yardley is taking us for a

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Speaker 2: few walks in Wings and Marlboro this morning.

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Speaker 3: Yoda, yolda Jack, what is.

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Speaker 2: The best way would you say to start the day?

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Speaker 2: Right at the top of the south there and picked in.

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Speaker 3: Well, as you know, Jack, Pickton is ringked with some

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Speaker 3: salivating trails. I reckon a really good head clearer to

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Speaker 3: start the day as the Bob's Bay trick. So if

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Speaker 3: you're in Pickton, head over that coat Hanger Bridge by

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Speaker 3: the marina, around to Shelley Beach and then onto Bob's Bay.

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Speaker 3: There's such a short and sweet hillside stroll on the

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Speaker 3: harbor edge. Beast of all, you've got such a good

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Speaker 3: vantage point. Watch the fieries pulling in out of pict

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Speaker 3: In typically not on auto pilots.

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Speaker 2: Yes, typically not, hopefully not. I think I think we

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Speaker 2: can be cauiously optimistic that they've learned from mistakes. So

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Speaker 2: last year, Yeah, so did you got snout track?

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Speaker 3: Yes? I did, Jack, And obviously all the locals will

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Speaker 3: tell visitors you've got to do snout track and the

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Speaker 3: full walk all ride is about twelve kilometers, but it's

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Speaker 3: the marquee views of Queen Charlotte Sound all the way

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Speaker 3: to the head of the peninsula. That's what makes the

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Speaker 3: walk the gift that keeps on giving its view with

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Speaker 3: demo and if you do want to cheat, you can

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Speaker 3: just drive through a lot of it to Victoria Domain

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Speaker 3: up to the Queen Charlotte Viewpoint car park, which overlooks

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Speaker 3: Tesecai Bay and Karaka Bay, which is where the fairy

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Speaker 3: grounded last year. In fact, I think from that car

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Speaker 3: park viewpoint is probably where your auntie famously did her

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Speaker 3: live on the scene radio cross last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, they got the call up, got the

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Speaker 2: call up. Yeah, that's I think. I think that's exactly

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Speaker 2: where it was.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So from that, from that carpark deck, I was

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Speaker 3: just going to say, if you do want to do

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Speaker 3: a short walk from the car park, it's just forty

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Speaker 3: minutes walking time to the very tip of the peninsula

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Speaker 3: to the snout and then the other really cool walk,

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Speaker 3: also including Victoria Domain, is the picct In to Wait

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Speaker 3: Carwak Trek, which is actually a doddle of a walk.

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Speaker 3: Most of it is flat, fabulously through Bosh so you

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Speaker 3: get a lot of bird song zipping you all the

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Speaker 3: way to the serene sites of Whitekawa bait nice.

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Speaker 2: So when you feel pekish and pickton.

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Speaker 3: Yeah we issue did well. I reckon toast your lords.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to beat. So this shop is right on

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Speaker 3: the waterfront across from the marina, and people just go

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Speaker 3: gagger over the a gourmet sowdo toasted semis. I Reckon

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Speaker 3: the Ivan is perhaps the best of the lot. The

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Speaker 3: ivan is like a mashup of pastrami, saur kraut, and pickle.

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Speaker 3: It is just so good, such a great way to

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Speaker 3: fuel your walk. And if we are looking for something

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Speaker 3: a bit more substantial aid from the day, my suggestion

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Speaker 3: would be Cortado. Very Mediterranean based menu, lots of tapers,

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Speaker 3: lots of small plates, things like Spanish meat balls, lamb

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Speaker 3: tooss data and Cortado Jack is owned by a Mark

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Speaker 3: and Joe Yardley, So it's got to be good.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, you can trust that it's not related.

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Speaker 3: I have to have to point.

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Speaker 2: Out, Hey, it's all right, Adie, Bob's already had a

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Speaker 2: shout out.

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Speaker 3: That's the nepotism.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to combine some really good work

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Speaker 2: walks with endangered bird life on a Queen Charlotte cruise,

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Speaker 2: where would you say as good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if burning is your bag, I would suggest do

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Speaker 3: the half day jaunt to Motawada Island. I only recently

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Speaker 3: went to Mottawara for the first time, recently with Beach

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Speaker 3: Comba Cruises. So Beach Coma do these fantastic cat day

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Speaker 3: excursions until about the end of April is the season

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Speaker 3: and it's such a driving island sanctuary. So you've got

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Speaker 3: this amazing one way track around the hell. And the

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Speaker 3: reason it's so good is because you get the most

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Speaker 3: incredible lookout points like, for example, the Cock Straight Lookout.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the cracking perch across to the North Island

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Speaker 3: and Cock Strait. But yeah, it's all about the birds,

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Speaker 3: to be honest. Jeck and Motuara has been predator free

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Speaker 3: for over thirty years. So over the course of a

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Speaker 3: couple of hours I encountered gray warblers, the South Island saddleback,

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Speaker 3: the Kakariki, which of course is one of our great

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Speaker 3: parakeets in the South Island Robin. Also the Marlborough green

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Speaker 3: gecko which talk about green, it's more like vivid emerald,

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Speaker 3: the Marlboro cream Gecko. It looks like it's been sort

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Speaker 3: of dipped in a de luxe color chart. It's just amazing.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, alongside the geckos you will be twitching on overdrive.

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Speaker 2: Ah how special Motuara is close to ship Cove.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it It is? So this is another little sort

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Speaker 3: of special add on to the excursion. You get a

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Speaker 3: shortly layover at chip Cove, and I just love ship

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Speaker 3: Cove that it is just steeped in history. You can

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Speaker 3: feel the history at chip Cove because I mean James

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Speaker 3: Cork dropped anchor the on five separate ocations. He loved

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Speaker 3: to ship Cove. Some of the earliest sustained contacts between

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Speaker 3: Europeans and Maori occurred at chip Cove and it was harmonious.

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Speaker 3: The Coock Monument so cool because it's got one of

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Speaker 3: the original canons from the Endeavor, and then alongside that

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Speaker 3: that gorgeous carved for Fenowa, which vividly illustrates the wonderful

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Speaker 3: legend of Coupe and the giant octopus he chased in

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Speaker 3: these waters. So yeah, I just think ship Cover is

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Speaker 3: one of the heart stealing destinations in New Zealand. It's

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Speaker 3: also of course the start of the Queen Charlotte track

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Speaker 3: if you wanted a walking and talking with the birds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and from the beautiful peace and serenity within the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand bush to some big V eight engines taken

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Speaker 2: to the skies or the twelve in some cases. The

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Speaker 2: big air show is returning to mal to Blenham, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: That's right? Yeah, I thought we should mention this because

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Speaker 3: it's not that far away Easter weekend the Classic Fighter's

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Speaker 3: Air Show, and there's going to be over one hundred

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Speaker 3: aircraft taking part. Vintage planes fight at aircraft from both

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Speaker 3: world Wars, lots of jet age specimens. A lot of

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Speaker 3: them are locally based at Omaka Aviation Heritage Center, but

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Speaker 3: also there are dozens coming from across New Zealand and internationally.

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Speaker 3: I got a sneak peg jack at some of the

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Speaker 3: props in the displays that have been worked on which

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Speaker 3: will form part of the spectacles at the air show.

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Speaker 3: So it's quite a big production they put on and

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Speaker 3: they are pulling at all the stops. So yeah, if

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Speaker 3: that sounds like a bit of you, I would strongly

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Speaker 3: suggest you booked your tickets. But perhaps more importantly, your

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Speaker 3: accommodation Toronto ahead of Easter in Blenham.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, advice, Hey, Mike, come, Given it was what November,

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Speaker 2: I think you had the Christmas decorations up at your place.

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Speaker 2: We know you love, we know you love the festivities

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Speaker 2: over the Christmas period, but given us now February first,

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Speaker 2: I just needed to triple check you have taken your

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Speaker 2: Christmas decorations down, haven't you.

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Speaker 3: I got a bit of a shock when I looked

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Speaker 3: at the gallon. I have a very big weekend task

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Speaker 3: ahead them by.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna if you I'm going to check in this

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Speaker 2: time next week. Don't make us stage an intervention, will you.

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Speaker 2: I mean we're almost getting We're we're not too far

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Speaker 2: off the point where just to leave them up in

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Speaker 2: time for next Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Mike, I can just not this. There are some white

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Speaker 3: jackets down at the front gate. Jack, Yes, that could

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Speaker 3: be the reason.

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Speaker 2: I'm good luck with that. Thank you so much, and

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Speaker 2: we'll put all of your tips for traveling through Marlborough,

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Speaker 2: especially ahead of the Wonderful war Birds Festival over Easter

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Speaker 2: weekend up on the news talk. We se'd the website for.

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