June/July 2008

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Tourism Catlins Interpretation Plan
Submissions are invited from the community on the Draft Catlins Interpretation Plan.

Copies of the plan are available at the Waikawa Museum and Owaka Information Centre or by clicking here.

Public meetings to explain the Plan will be held on Monday 14th July, Owaka Community Centre and Tuesday 15th July, Tokanui Tavern at 7.30 pm.

Public submissions close at 12 noon, 31st July 2008.
Please email or post your submissions to :
Kim@ds-nz.com
Kim Dodds, Rapid 430, Papatowai Highway, Owaka
AGM of the South Catlins Development and Environmental Charitable Trust
Tokanui Hall, Thursday 3rd July 2008 at 7.30 pm.
The Community are invited to come to this meeting where a model of the proposed building at Curio Bay will be presented.
Tokanui Medical Centre
Dr Abraham Visage - Next Visit
Monday 7th July Tuesday 22nd July
Tokanui Medical Centre Clinic Daily 9-12 noon
Phone 2468 850 Outside these hours if you require the nurse phone 0800 426 285 and ask for the Tokanui nurse to be paged.
Tokanui School Fund Raising Quiz
Get your team of 4 or 5 together and enjoy a fun night out.
Where: Tokanui Tavern
When: Wednesday nights 7.30 from 4 June
Cost: $25 per team
Waikawa Museum
Interested in becoming a volunteer?
contact Gaye Lamb 2468 402
Recent AGMs
Many local organisations had their AGMs recently and committees were elected as follows:

South Catlins Promotions Committee
President June Stratford, Secretary Joy Tait, Treasurer Jeanette Ruddenklau. Meetings every fourth Tuesday of the month. Sub $20.... all local residents and businesses are welcome.

Waikawa Museum President Gaye Lamb, Secretary Ruth Hayes, Treasurer Heather Buckingham.

Tourism Catlins Trustees on Tourism Catlins are Heather Buckingham, Chair; Fergus Sutherland, Sec.; Robyn Shanks, Treasurer; Diane Miller(Chaslands); John Clark(Newhaven); Mary Sutherland (Papatowai). Their brief is to implement the Catlins Tourism Strategy.

Catlins Coaster/Bottom Bus Winter Schedule
The Catlins Coaster service is now operating Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday through the Catlins and the Bottom Bus on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
For more information contact:
Jamie Jensen
Bottom Bus Sales & Marketing
jamie@bottombus.co.nz
0800 304 333 or 021 902 344

Tides 2007/2008. Check the tide times before visiting the Cathedral Caves. The caves and access road are only accessible two hours before and after low tide.

Blog spot - read what recent travellers have to say about the Catlins ......
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blogentries/liv.ltd/rtw/1208303100.html
First stop Kaka point a pretty beach we then started bumping along the unsealed road to nugget point....but wait....stop...kathryns seen a seal on the beach...reverse....leap out the car....creep along the beach...so as not to disturb the large brown rock! Ahhh wel back in the car, a quick stop at a place where we were in with a chance of seeing those elusive yellow eyed
penguins, again no luck! So up to nugget point, pretty light house, lots of real fur seals, very windy, run back to car! We spent the night in Owaka sharing an enourmous hostel with 3 other people! ....

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blogentries/nikandads2008/1/1211733180.html
Parking up, we hiked up towards the lighthouse only to spot fur seals playfully swimming in the rock pools below, it was just wonderful! Nugget point, which is famous for being one of the in only places in the world where different species of seal co-exist, is a pretty dramatic area of the coastline...,

http://laurennewzealand.blogspot.com/2008/05/south-island-day-5-catlins-and-dunedin.html
The view from "Hilltop," our appropriately named hostel: Since it was dark and raining on our drive the night before, we wanted to actually see the Catlins in the daylight the next morning. There are some really beautiful stretches of...

http://othercool.com/pailbailer/2008/05/04/time-out-in-the-catlins/
Only in the past three years was the sealing of the Catlins highway, from Balclutha to Invercargill, completed. Now the area is growing in popularity. But when people tell me they have "done" the Catlins, I shudder. ...

http://safety3rd.blogspot.com/2008/04/south.html
Then a day running through the Catlins with waterfalls, seals, penguins, and amazing seascapes. Pictures are definitely worth a thousand words.

http://whilestockslast.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-dunedin-via-catlins.html
Next stop on the Catlins was a waterfall by the name of Purakaunui Falls. The last time we stopped the car to walk to a waterfall it was at the Kondalilla Falls in Queensland. On that occasion what started as a gentle amble finished ...
While Stocks Last -

This a panoramic photo from Pounawea: wow!
http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=29275