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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.

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Speaker 2: At be time to catch up with our travel correspondent

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Speaker 2: Mike Yardley, who is going wild in Haarst this morning.

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Speaker 3: Calder Mike, Good morning, Jack.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, this part of the country has

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Speaker 2: to be one of the most beautiful. So I'm so

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Speaker 2: glad you've got your top tips for us. If you're

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Speaker 2: heading heading up from Wanica. There are sort of myriad

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Speaker 2: roadside delights, aren't there on the Harst Pass Highway?

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Speaker 3: Totally? Jack, You're just spoiled for choice.

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Speaker 4: So the Old Pine passes only one hundred and forty

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Speaker 4: kilometers in length. But what I love about it first

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Speaker 4: of all, is it still exudes final frontier fields. You know,

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Speaker 4: you just feel like you've entered another realm of New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: Is you thread you away like a needle through south

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Speaker 4: Westland's primeval forests and all those canyon like cliff walls.

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Speaker 3: I just love those.

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Speaker 4: But yes, you've got all sorts of roadside bushwalks that

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Speaker 4: you can take your pick and whose from.

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Speaker 3: All of them generally lead to waterfalls.

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Speaker 4: So whether you want to check out Roaring Billy or Thundercreek,

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Speaker 4: or fantail falls. You're in luck with vertical aqua magic.

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Speaker 4: But the biggest straw I think in this part of

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Speaker 4: the country has been the Blue Poles. And if you

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Speaker 4: were down this way over summer, you were probably disappointed

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Speaker 4: because access has been limited due to a lot of

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Speaker 4: reconstruction they've been doing to the boardwalks and the swing

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Speaker 4: bridges at Blue Poles.

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Speaker 3: The good news.

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Speaker 4: Is if you want to do a late autumn early

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Speaker 4: winter roadie around Hearst, it's all good to go. So

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Speaker 4: it will be fully accessible in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Nice. And so if you're just heading north of Hearst,

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Speaker 2: there's like a beautiful kind of west coast lookout at

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Speaker 2: Knight's Point day that's right.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you've got first of all, some fabulous walks at Ship.

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Speaker 3: Creek just south of Knights Point.

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Speaker 4: And what I love about Ship's Creek jacket Ship got

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Speaker 4: these vast stands of Hicetia trees that are seeming interlocked.

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Speaker 4: It's like that gripping onto each other to provide extra

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Speaker 4: stability in that dense coastal swamp.

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Speaker 3: And then when you've finished.

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Speaker 4: Checking that out heads the view of views at Knight's

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Speaker 4: Points with all of those wavelashed ross rock stacks. I

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Speaker 4: only just noticed this recently, but there's a memorial at

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Speaker 4: that lookout commemorating the completion of the Hasst Highway. So

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Speaker 4: this is where Westland was finally linked with O'taga. And

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Speaker 4: if you're wondering about the name Knight's Point, cool story.

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Speaker 4: The chief Surveyor's dog was called Knight, so a canine

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Speaker 4: landed the naming rights.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: So if you're heading a little bit further south in

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Speaker 2: on the road to Jackson Bay, tell us about the

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Speaker 2: wire Tautal River Safari.

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Speaker 4: This blew me away, jack So this is backcountry jet

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Speaker 4: boating at its very best, zipping you deep into the

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Speaker 4: guts of Hearst's alpine wilderness. So the right up the

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Speaker 4: wire Tautal River is not a thrills and spills right,

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Speaker 4: you won't be getting the three sixties. Instead, you've just

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Speaker 4: gotten nature, the primal pool of nature. And you'll even

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Speaker 4: see the alpine fault gouging its imprint on the landscapes.

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Speaker 3: We stopped by.

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Speaker 4: This thriving Kiwi sentry on the edge of the river,

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Speaker 4: which is now home to four hundred brown.

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Speaker 3: Kiwi and being a Glacier River.

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Speaker 4: Of course, it's got that trademark milky blue hue thanks

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Speaker 4: to the vaulta glacier at the top of the river.

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Speaker 4: And then you've got these truck sized boulders that just

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Speaker 4: tumble down from the alps along the river side. And

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Speaker 4: when you get closer to the Tasman Sea, and we

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Speaker 4: went all the way down to the sea, you just

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Speaker 4: suddenly notice how the water goes from milky blue.

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Speaker 3: To brackish brown. It's just got all the elements.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds amazing. So how far into the back

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Speaker 2: country do you actually go.

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Speaker 3: Recollection?

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Speaker 4: I think the full traverse was about thirty k so

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Speaker 4: it would take you days and days of hiking and

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Speaker 4: very formidable terrain to you know, to penetrate these parts.

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Speaker 4: We went up as far as sharks Tooth Rapids right upstream.

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Speaker 4: I love that name. It's sort of a Disney sort

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Speaker 4: of name is and it Sharks tooth Rapids. But from

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Speaker 4: there you can sort of venture into the forest and

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Speaker 4: check out all the potter carps, the orchids, the moss.

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Speaker 4: Of course, it really is nature at its unmolested, unbowed best.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So what is if you're on the coast what's

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Speaker 2: so distinctive about Jackson Bay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very close to Wyatautal River, so about another

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Speaker 3: That road the end of the road.

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Speaker 4: You really do feel like you've reached journey's end at

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Speaker 4: this back of beyond Fishing Village. The wharf is probably

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Speaker 4: the great statement of Jackson Bay because it's nearly ninety

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Speaker 4: years old and it just so strikingly stretches out deep

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Speaker 4: into the sea, and this is the only sheltered harbor

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Speaker 4: between Graymouth and Milford Sound. But like a lot of

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Speaker 4: spots in southwest New Zealand, jack Jackson Bay was subject

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Speaker 4: to one of those ridiculous settlement plans in the nineteenth century.

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Speaker 4: So we had hundreds of Poles and Irish and Italians

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Speaker 4: and Scandies and Germans, all lured to Jackson Bay by

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Speaker 4: some half assed government scheme to tame the wild and

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Speaker 4: within three years, because of the lack of fertile flatland,

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Speaker 4: the isolation, the rain and the sandflies, most of them

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Speaker 4: had fled.

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Speaker 3: They just couldn't handle it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh gosh, it is just like an amazing part

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Speaker 2: of the country and kind of like the end of

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Speaker 2: the line, right Jackson Bay. When you're you're heading down

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Speaker 2: that weast coast. So what's on the menu at the

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Speaker 2: craypot aside from the obvious.

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Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, Well, Jackson Bay is still a thriving fishing

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Speaker 4: port and catch of the day man alive. They have

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Speaker 4: got their own definition to catch of the day. The

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Speaker 4: Americans of course go gaga over the larbster, the crayfish.

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Speaker 4: There's always white bait, of course, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: you can get past that gigantic blue cod that is

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Speaker 4: served on plates and Jackson Bay it is just astronomically sized,

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Speaker 4: by the way, the crayepod such a fascinating backstory. So

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Speaker 4: this caravan style litery actually began life as Timaru's pie card.

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Speaker 4: Then it moved to Cromwell in the eighties to feed

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Speaker 4: the Clyde Dan workers, and about twenty five years ago

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Speaker 4: a Haarst local bought it toad it over Hals to

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Speaker 4: pass on a tractor. Jackson Bay icon was born. So

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Speaker 4: it is definitely a Kiwi classic to wed too. What

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Speaker 4: is a real banger of a road trip in the

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Speaker 4: heart region.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's one of those parts of the country

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Speaker 2: you only go there if you're going there, right, But

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Speaker 2: my goodness is worth it. It's not on the way

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Speaker 2: to anywhere, you know. I mean, it's very much of

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Speaker 2: the line on that west coast. Yeah, but my god,

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Speaker 2: just yeah it is. It is just stunning. I remember

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Speaker 2: going on to the family road trips down there and

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Speaker 2: driving along that west coast just north of Jackson's and

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Speaker 2: like you can kind of just stop anywhere. And I

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Speaker 2: remember one time like we didn't feel like this might

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Speaker 2: be saying too much here, but I feel like we

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Speaker 2: didn't have our talks and it was like, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to go swimming in the ocean if

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Speaker 2: I don't have any talks. And it was like, well,

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Speaker 2: hang on, we could actually skinned it because no one

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Speaker 2: is going to be seeing us like this. It's untouched

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Speaker 2: world country down there, you know. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: Mike really appreciate it. And we'll make sure all hips

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Speaker 2: are on the News talks 'b website.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: I just realized that this sounds weird. Don't worry. We didn't. Well,

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Speaker 2: at least I died, to put it this way. I

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Speaker 2: don't remember the whole family skinny thing. That would have

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Speaker 2: been a weird. It would have been a weird thing.

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Speaker 2: I supposed to. The point was that we could have

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Speaker 2: if we'd been into that kind of thing.

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