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‘The Land of the Long White Cloud.’

A landscape conceived by volcanoes and raised by glaciers. A land beyond all lands, where the rivers accept no defilement; the expanses offer no conveniences; the weather yields no predictability.

This is the place where the fish are wild, the people fearless, the experiences untamed. This is the place at the end of the tunnels of our most daring dreams.

THIS IS NEW ZEALAND.

Our headwater sections are wild and wooly. Wherever the streams slow down, a greenblue pool forms, and that is where the trout live. Ten miles downstream, this boulderstrewn configuration gives way to less valley gradient and instead of rock hopping pool to pool, you walk casually in flat, grass meadows and gravel bars.

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