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Speaker 1: Great news. The best beach of the world, Cathedral Cove.

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Speaker 1: You can get to the sea, you can get there.

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Speaker 1: Its walking access will be restored before summer. It's been

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Speaker 1: closed since Side Cone Gabriel and the government's given five

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Speaker 1: million dollars for a short term fix. So the general

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Speaker 1: manager of Destination Hodaki Coramandel is Hadley Dryden, who must

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Speaker 1: be a happy man. Hello Hadley, morning, Andrew.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're pretty happy here in the current mandle. That's

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Speaker 2: great news.

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Speaker 1: What's it been now that it's been closed?

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Speaker 2: Part of me?

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Speaker 1: How long has it been that it's been closed.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's been closed since the events in Gabriel.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just we didn't do the month count up,

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Speaker 1: but there we go. It's a long long time and

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Speaker 1: that was a big, big beach. It's your biggest attraction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not far from the likes of hot

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Speaker 2: Water Beach and of course the community of Fatianga as well,

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of polling power that Cathedral Cove

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Speaker 2: has for the whole of the region and and in

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Speaker 2: fact New Zealand to an extent as well. It's a

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Speaker 2: bit of a trial for the country, so it's pretty

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Speaker 2: important that it's back for the summer.

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Speaker 1: So run us through the fix. It's only five million

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Speaker 1: dollars and it's only temporary.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at the moment it's a case of

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Speaker 2: we'll take what we can get and we'll support the

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Speaker 2: process in terms of delivering what we can for this

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Speaker 2: summer and hopefully building an experience that is even better

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Speaker 2: than what it was going forward.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it will be good enough to walk. I've

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Speaker 1: done this walk in a number of times, you know.

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Speaker 1: I love the walk, and it's beautiful and it's one

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Speaker 1: of the easiest walks because it's all sealed, you know.

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Speaker 1: But then I saw with the damage, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of stairs that actually fell down. How would

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Speaker 1: you like it improved?

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Speaker 2: I think it's well, it was a little bit like

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Speaker 2: the yellow brick road, so really easy access for most people,

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Speaker 2: but obviously a little bit challenging with the pieces that

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Speaker 2: were blowing out in the storm. But I think it's

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Speaker 2: about the overall experience. It's improved, so from a destination

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Speaker 2: management perspective, how it benefits the community, the wider environment,

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Speaker 2: and if there's any other additional parts that can be

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Speaker 2: locked out to extend the experience. Even so, during the

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Speaker 2: last summer that we did have there was two Party Point,

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Speaker 2: which is at the southern end of Hajei that was

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Speaker 2: opened up and promoted as a walkway, and you see

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Speaker 2: streams of visitors walking to that that point as well.

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Speaker 2: So there's potential to try and encourage people to stay

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Speaker 2: a little bit longer and help support the community a

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Speaker 2: little bit more so and.

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Speaker 1: Walk a little bit further. One of the things about

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Speaker 1: the damage into Cathedral Cove is of course the roof

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Speaker 1: of the actual arch that you could walk through between

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Speaker 1: the two beaches. The roof had come down, you know,

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Speaker 1: So will we be able to go through that arch

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Speaker 1: or is that now forbidden because of the risk and

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Speaker 1: is it going to be too difficult to stabilize the roof.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's too early to say from my perspective, and

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Speaker 2: department the Conservation will obviously be looking at that closely,

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Speaker 2: but I think it's only periodically where there's a rock

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Speaker 2: fall from the archway, So it might be that they

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Speaker 2: just close it intimittently depending on the weather. And you know,

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Speaker 2: people as it is are still taking a chance and

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Speaker 2: will wander through anyway, even if they've had access through

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Speaker 2: by the boat. So I think we have to be

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Speaker 2: pretty pragmatic about the response there too, very good and also.

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Speaker 1: What else does you want done on the Coromandle I

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Speaker 1: can tell you the roads are terrible. I mean they

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Speaker 1: always have been before twenty five A went down. I

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Speaker 1: mean you've got one lane bridges all over the place,

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Speaker 1: You've got them in Titler, You've got them everywhere and

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Speaker 1: they hold up everything. Is there any talk of more

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Speaker 1: investment into this area because more and more people are

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Speaker 1: living there permanently too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the local council, it's fair to say that's their

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Speaker 2: number one priority. For many who visit the Amanda Lost

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Speaker 2: and the roads that are pretty much back to a

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Speaker 2: good space. But when you look a little bit closer,

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Speaker 2: the resilience of the network is still it requires a

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Speaker 2: lot of upgrades and protection so we don't have to

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Speaker 2: go through what we did to the same extent with

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Speaker 2: State High twenty five A for example. So there's a

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Speaker 2: huge amount of work and advocacy that's going into fixing

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Speaker 2: up the roads so we're more resilient in the future.

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Speaker 2: And the Coromanal Ferry, that's probably another one that you

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Speaker 2: know we've suffered through COVID. The ferry to Auckland stopped

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Speaker 2: and we had the cove and the road blowout. So

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Speaker 2: we've had a bit of a rough time here in

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Speaker 2: the Coromandal. So I think any support that we can get,

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Speaker 2: whether it's through the COVID, the ferry or most definitely

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Speaker 2: the roads, we're certainly chasing that.

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Speaker 1: Well, good on your Handley, Congratulations and good luck and

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time. Hadley Driden from

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