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On Magazine Volume 3, Issue 6, Summer 2012-2013 Vol. 3, Issue 6, Summer 2012-2013 Wanaka Bowling Club ISLAND CABARET hawea NYE al fresco play being green diamond geezers flash fiction SUMMER LOVIN’ SOUTHERN FLING Vol. 3, Issue 6, Summer 2012-2013 4 concept 32 on screen Gone Troppo Bikes on film 6 environment 34 little ones Eco adventures Playground guide 8 on track 35 on the page Spec-trackular! Book review 10 on location 36 degustation Diamond geezers Summer BBQ 11 on the island 38 destinations Ruby Island cabaret Invercargill 12 fashion 40 flash fiction Love all Short short stories 18 directions 42 inspiration Wanaka map Local poetry 19 on / off What’s cool, what’s not The contents of On Magazine are copyright and may not be reproduced 20 what’s on in any form without written Gig guide permission. Printed on FSC paper by Taieri Print, Dunedin. 26 on location To advertise with On Magazine Hawea Happening contact us on: 022 0188 314 or (03) 443 4629. 28 on the beat [email protected] Rave rising www.onmag.co.nz 30on foot Follow us on A peek at Mt Roy Facebook & Twitter 31 on location COVER: Ruby Island Chop Shop Image by Simon Darby Photo: Jeremy Town onmagazine Summer. It turns me upside down. Summer, summer, summer – like a merry-go-round. The Cars were right. Summer is magic. Wanaka’s population surges during the warmer months – for good reason. For the weeks either side of Christmas and New Year, New Water Bar is a fully licensed restaurant with fantastic bar facilities and located Zealand shuts up shop and heads for a sunny spot beside a body of water. A river, lake or piece of coast we like to call our second home. And half the population seems to come right on the lake front in Wanaka. We offer value for money and service with a to Wanaka. It’s the time of the great Out Of Office AutoReply. If you for some strange smile from our friendly staff to ensure your visit is a memorable one. reason send a business-related email during this summer-soaking fortnight, it’s most likely to ping back with something like Thank you for getting in touch. I’m away from the office on leave so the only work I’m doing is on my tan. If you are really desperate to communicate with someone, then get in touch with some poor intern or underling ALL MEALS ARE because I’m sifting sand through my toes and rubbing sunscreen on my loved one/s. What are you even up to; sending an email, you doofus? Go outside, crank up $20 OR UNDER! your BBQ, run through the sprinkler, live a little. It’s officially ‘tools down’. I will endeavour to reply to your email in the New Year, ‘but til then I’ve gone Whether you are after a full dining experience, a casual brunch or lunch, or a troppo. You should too. lively late night entertainment venue, Water Bar can make your visit a fantastic This is corporate communiqué at its best. The last thing I’m planning before embracing my Wanaka summer holiday is crafting that snappy AutoReply. Something experience! We’re open 7 days a week from 8:00 a.m. till 2:30 a.m! along the lines of I’m here, it’s awesome, best wishes for 2013. Then the fun begins. I’ve got a bucket list of Wanaka must-dos for this season: Jump off the wharf, go wakeboarding, glamping, tramping, swimming and fishing. Play golf, tennis, backyard Simply bring in your copy of ON magazine cricket and lawn bowls. Eat hot chips under the willows. Picnic. Lose the shoes. Meanwhile my instant reply can tell others what they’re missing. Because although this for these 3 great offers... is gloating just a teeny bit, it’s all in the interest of promoting Work/Life balance. And just now, Summer = Life. Work can wait. Let’s go troppo. ANNABEL WILSON 1 2 3 magazine FREE TAP BEER Editor Deputy Editor Design Publicity 1 FREE KIDS MAIN Annabel Wilson Laura Williamson Bridget Hall Juliane Bray OR HOUSE WINE 2 FOR 1 WHEN AN [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] OR NON ALCOHOLIC ADULT MAIN IS Contributing Writers: Alex Kerr, Simon King, Christopher Horan, Libby Paulin, MAL, DRINK WITH ANY COFFEE Sarah Wadsworth PURCHASED Contributing Photographers: Simon Darby, Zed (Zeph) Wadsworth, WANAKA.TV, FOOD PURCHASE Jeremy Town, Nina Henderson Be part of On Magazine... Terms & Conditions – Only one offer per person per visit, not to be used in conjunction with any other promotional offer. 1 Send us your photos, 2 Join our 3 Send us an email stories or art. Best submissions online community. with your thoughts or 145 Ardmore Street, Wanaka, (03) 443-4345 will be published online onmag.co.nz suggestions. or in the mag. Twitter, Facebook [email protected] www.waterbarwanaka.co.nz onmagazine water bar full page ad (concept)1 1 12/11/12 8:06:59 PM mainland New Zealand since 1920 and liberated back on here in 2004. This is now the only place they can be seen in the wild in any numbers (100- 150 plus) on the mainland. Hopelessly nosey, sadly they have no street sense with predators, and will walk up to them, to their demise. Photos: Supplied Can you explain the “island on a lake on an island on a lake” thing? It’s very cool. Wanaka is the most amazing lake. Just north of the island, it is 311 metres deep (below sea level), Wally Weka checks the map then, during the ice ages, ice was forced uphill 500 metres right over the top of the island, somehow leaving a gouged-out lake up 150 metres on top of Mou Waho Island. And then there are islands in that lake! It is a unique phenomenon, found nowhere else in the Southern Lakes. What’s your favourite local walk? It has to be Rob Roy Glacier Trek. I have been up Q&A there guiding long enough to say that the valley geologically and ice-wise has changed amazingly in the last 25 years; a snapshot of geological ECO WANAKA ADVENTURES Island Arethusa Wahu Pool on top of Mou time. It is always different. Trek-leading in the Annapurnas and Everest region, it would take The On girls caught up with Chris Riley, the co-owner of Eco Wanaka Adventures. us two weeks to see icefall action like that, not He and his guides take their clients hiking, lake cruising, heli hiking and fishing, and two hours! word around town is they are the local authority on the region’s secret spots. If you could choose anyone from history to take on a heli hike, who would it be and why? So, Chris, we’re intrigued by both the “Eco” Have you had any particularly memorable Ernest Shackleton, after wintering over two years and “Adventures” part of your name. Can you clients? in a row in gruesome conditions in Antarctica, tell us a little bit about what you do? One man wanted “The Big Day Out”, Wanaka then saving all his men. I think I would shout him Eco Wanaka offers lake, island and mountain style. This consisted of: drive Wanaka to a single malt as well! adventures with a difference: informative, Makarora, fly Siberia Valley, walk to Lake Rob Roy Glacier walk flexible, fun eco tours and treks with the amazing Crucible, swim in the lake (requested!) pushing Wanaka secrets revealed. For example, the Rob the icebergs out of the way, walk back to airstrip, Roy Glacier Trek gets well off the beaten tracks. fly scenic back to Makarora, drive back to GET PERSONAL WITH Lake Cruise & And on the “eco” side of it, our clients can “give Wanaka to finish with a beer with his wife (who Island Nature Walk... back” by planting a native tree on Mou Waho refused to stay in a hut overnight), all in one day! NATURE ON OUR... Island on every Lake Cruise & Island Nature He was lots of fun, and it was a really cool tailor- Rob Roy Glacier Walk trip - a mutually beneficial agreement with made experience. Guided Trek Alpine Lakes Heli Hike DOC that leaves the island in better condition Your “Lake Cruise and Island Walk” trip takes than we arrived, every time. visitors to Mou Wahu Island Nature Reserve. Wanaka Nature Encounter (Cruise/Walk/4WD) How long has ECO Wanaka Adventures been What sort of flora and fauna make the island Boat Fishing running? their home? We have been running for six years now. Our This introduced-predator-free island is alive with P- 443 2869 local guides all have had many years’ experience birdlife, including the New Zealand pigeon, tui, Free - 0800 926 326 prior to this, and, personally, I have been guiding bellbird, New Zealand falcon, morepork and, here since 1983! of course, the flightless buff weka, extinct on E- [email protected] W - www.ecowanaka.co.nz onmagazine Eco Wanaka (third pg ad with QR)1 1 11/11/12 12:55:01 PM * LUGGATE CREEK TRACK * Bring this in on your next The Newcastle Track visit to Basecamp with Clip ‘n Climb and go into the draw for a 10 VISIT PASS* Images: UCTT VbaW\g\bafTcc_l n Tr ZI acks we Trustr Luggate Creek Bridge will soon grow by another 12 kms, with the On Magazine meets the folk behind Wanaka’s spec-trackular trail network: the Newcastle Track due to open in December.
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