Island in the sun

January 2012

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January 2012

Lake Coleridge, Canterbury Protruding from the middle of Lake Coleridge in central Canterbury, where the wind regularly howls, is an island; unnamed, virtually unknown, and seemingly inhospitable. Yet the challenge was issued for a ‘cuppa at the island’ on a calm winter’s day when hoped for idyllic conditions were more likely, that and the magnificence […]
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