New Zealand gonatural naturist magazine June 2014 #229

for health and wellbeing

Nude adventure in Marlborough 229 Jun 2014

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Naked Overlanders Deep South Trek Hash House Harriers visit Te Marua 4WD Te Urewera National Park NUDVAN Mystery Safari

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Editor’s letter

n our previous issue of gonatural magazine, we brought you the exciting news that the NZNF had formally written to the International Naturist Federation, expressing its desire to hold the INF World Congress 2016 at the grounds of Wellington Naturist Club.

Now, with the support and resources of Tourism New Zealand and Absolutely Positively Wellington, the steering team have the added bonus of professional mentors assisting them to do everything possible to bring the congress and delegates to our country.

In this day and age the website is an important aspect of your organisation’s promotion. NZNF Internet Coordinator, Hans van Asperdt, provides some tips on how to improve your organisation’s website.

Irene Begg was one of fourteen intrepid naturists who journeyed in convoy in 4WD vehicles into the remote Te Urewera National Park. While on the West side of the North Island, Taranaki Naturist Club, thanks to support from Percy Cousins Trust, celebrated the installation and opening of their new swimming pool.

NUDVAN’S Mystery Safari included visits to the Hare Krishna Temple, Crystal Mountain and Counties Sun Club. Counties club also celebrated a milestone during their 40th anniversary in February of this year.

The annual visit by the Hash House Harriers to Te Marua drew a good assembly of fit ‘geriatrix’ all enjoying Wellington Naturist Club’s great hospitality and facilities.

South now with Skinny Dip Tours and a gaggle of ‘Aussies’ visiting many of New Zealand’s iconic scenic attractions in the ‘Mainland’, stopovers at all the smaller clubs in the ‘deep south’, and beginning and ending at Pineglades.

Still in the ‘deep south’ on the Naked Overlanders Trek with Will and Shirley Fraser and Possum. Possum writes “I got to spend a whole stack of quality time with close friends doing what we love most.” Sadly Will Fraser died suddenly in March of this year. He was a man of character and a character of a man.

Sun, sea, food and good company. A combination which ensures that the Nude Adventure in Marlborough is a great annual event. The BBQ CAT was the choice of vessel this year and the trip into the Marlborough Sounds had everyone, including Janie, who wrote about her own experience, thinking about next year’s event.

February’s full moon shone on a good number of ‘Freddy Bares’ as they dashed into a cool Pacific. Joyce Fleming added her usual flair and contributed a song to celebrate the joyous occasion.

We’re a busy lot in the ‘Mainland’ and the Orchard Sun Club in Central Otago is no exception. The annual K-Cup Yankee Miniten Tournament and World Naked Bike Ride were both held in Middlemarch in the middle of March.

Many thanks to all our wonderful contributors and readers who continue to support gonatural magazine.

Keep smiling, keep warm.

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Kay Hannam Managing Editor

Deadline for the September issue - 10th July Front cover: Vanessa - Nude Adventure in Marlborough Sounds - Photo Dave Care Left: Daniel at Ferndale Scenic Reserve, Marlborough Sounds - Photo Vanessa Jackson

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Contents Editor’s letter....................................................1 2016 World Congress of Naturism......................3 Getting results from your webpage....................4 4WD Drive into Te Urewera National Park...........6 Taranaki Naturist Park gains PCT Support.......7 NUDVAN Mystery Safari..................................8 Hash House Harriers visit to Te Marua.............10 Skinny Dip Tours in the Deep South..................12 Naked Overlanders Deep South Trek.............14 Nude Adventure in Marlborough....................20 Boating Nude.................................................24 World Naked Bike Ride - Central Otago...........25 Counties Sun Club 40th celebrations.............26 Skinnydipping down a moonbeam.................27 NZ Listings Naturist Clubs and Resorts........28 What’s On.......................................................29 Letters to the Editor........................................37 Around & About...............................................38 Will Fraser, Mt Menzies Station - Photo by Sarah Rowland

Issue #229 June 2014 gonatural for health and wellbeing. The magazine for freedom lovers and those who embrace the naturist lifestyle. Published quarterly by the New Zealand Naturist Federation Inc. Registered at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, as a magazine.

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Contributors: Brent Anderson Irene Begg Christine Bowers Janie Buckland Joyce Fleming Kay Hannam Brent Henderson Phil Matthews

Donna Miller Rodd and Ruth Pegg Possum Yvette Reece Ross Reid Malcolm Scott Hans van Asperdt

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2016 World Congress of Naturism Every two years the International Naturist Federation (INF) have a World Congress which is hosted by different federations around the world. In September 2014, the INF and Delegates will meet at a village called Drumshanbo in Ireland.

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e are excited to announce that the NZNF is in the process of submitting a bid to host the 2016 World Congress of Naturism here in New Zealand at Wellington Naturist Club on the dates of November 16th to 20th.

The Steering Committee for the NZNF bid comprises Kay Hannam, June Campbell-Tong and Donna Miller who report to Ken Mercer (Wellington Naturist Club President) and Wendy Lowe (NZNF President).

The weekend of 22nd and 23rd March saw the Steering Committee meet together at WNC to brainstorm ideas, discuss progress and take video footage around the club in Wellington.

Kay Hannam and June Campbell-Tong had met the previous day with Tourism New Zealand and Absolutely Positively Wellington so had some extremely exciting news to share regarding the support of these organisations and their offer of collateral and funding to ensure we win the honour of hosting the 2016 Congress.

TNZ are so excited about our proposed bid and about working with us and want to do everything possible to assist us in bringing the congress and delegates to our country.

As well as funding, they have offered guidance and assistance from an Events Manager (or Professional Conference Organiser) along with professional promotional/marketing collateral and a DVD presentation to Delegates at the 2014 Congress in Ireland.

TNZ are putting a complete video

presentation together along with professional, stunning footage and images of New Zealand scenery and will freight this and all promotional material to Ireland.

We are blown away by the support that TNZ are offering and look forward to working with them and gleaning all the information and assistance they can provide so that our bid, and hopefully the 2016 Congress, will be the most successful possible. I’m sure you will understand and appreciate how this generous assistance has inspired us greatly and boosted our anticipation and expectation for submitting the NZNF bid.

From registration to venue facilities and accommodation options - our plan is to have a world-class business event and cultural experience. We aim to make travel information and bookings for attendees professional and easy with no detail missed.

The next step in this process is for a financial feasibility study to be conducted, then TNZ will prepare and produce the bid document and logo/banner design, along with the DVD, brochures and collateral packs.

We are currently working on the theme for the congress as being “Naturist Tourism” and this is a big opportunity in our country and worldwide, so we are hoping for additional ideas and concepts from TNZ. The steering committee is in overdrive meeting with the appropriate mentors and preparing everything required for the bid although an enormous amount of work has been lifted off our shoulders which will make our work as keen volunteers a lot easier

and the result more professional.

As with any team, we need the support of all naturists in New Zealand so there are many ways that you and your club can help.

• We want to include a product unique or known to each region in the Welcome Packs for the Delegates. You might know of something or have contacts to a supplier and this will be invaluable to us.

• Some of the Delegates and Council might arrange to stay at your club enroute to the Congress or as they travel around the country afterwards. You could provide your own short video, PowerPoint presentation or photos of your club facilities that we can include in information being provided to them via newsletters and email communication.

• We have 28 months until the congress so you should start working on and implementing a plan for upgrading areas around your club to a more international standard for the visitors.

• If you have ideas on our Naturist Tourism theme or have contact with someone well known (or better still, internationally recognisable) who would be a great keynote speaker along this theme, that would be very much welcomed.

A Facebook page has been set up to keep you informed with our ideas and plans ‘like’ it and share it with your networks - so you can be updated as things happen.

So please join with us and assist us with this very important project to bring the “35th International Congress of Naturism” to New Zealand on 16th to 20th November 2016. gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

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Getting results from your webpage Winter months are upon us and a good time to get your promotion of your organisation ready for the new season. As NZNF Communications Officer, Donna Miller, has already written in previous articles, in this day and age the website is an important aspect of your organisation’s promotion. In this article NZNF Internet Coordinator, Hans van Asperdt, provides some tips on how to improve your website.

Your audience An important factor in building your website is for whom you build your website (your audience). Is it for you, the club members, potential members or visitors? For most organisations it will be all of them, but don’t get lost in your own preferences. In everything you do on your website you have to keep this in mind, does your audience understand what you are saying and is it attractive for them?

Your pages must load fast If you do nothing else to improve your web pages, you should make them load as fast as possible. You will read about how internet connections are getting faster and faster, but no matter how fast the average connection is for your readers, there is always more data, more content, more images, more everything for them to download.

And let’s not forget the areas in New Zealand where fast internet is / will not be available.

Pages should only be as long as they need to be.

Writing for the web is different from writing for print. People skim online, especially when they first get to a page.

You want the contents of your page to give them what they want quickly, but provide enough detail for those who want expansion on the basics.

Mobile devices, tablets, laptops and desktops The growth of smart phones and tablets has been enormous in New Zealand, almost every household has one or a few of them, not to forget the number of tourists who want to visit your venue and travel around with smart phones and tablets for their information.

A website designed for a desktop doesn’t always fit on a smaller laptop screen or a tablet or smart phone.

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they have to scroll or zoom constantly to read the information on your website.

But there is a solution without having to build two, three or four different sites, it is called Responsive websites.

Basically these are websites which auto adjust to the screen size / device you are reading them on. There are several free or

low cost responsive website templates on the internet which get you going, in most of them you can even determine which information on your website can be read on a desktop, tablet or smart phone.

Bay of Plenty Sun Club is perhaps the only club currently experimenting with a responsive website.

Be found on the Internet In general you have a website because you want people to find you. There are three main ways people get to your website: 1. They know your url and type in the url.

2. They click on a link of another webpage.

3. They find you through a search engine, like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

Option 1 is by far the easiest, on each publication you mention your url.

With option 2 you are reliant on the other website to put a link on their website for your website. Most do this for free, while others you have to pay.

Option 3 is by far the most difficult of the three. There are people out there who make it their job to help you with this process, but there some easy steps you can follow yourself. a. Write down a list of words which your club wants to be associated with. b. Write down a list of words your club doesn’t want to be associated with. It sounds strange but this is even more important than the first list. c. Avoid negatives. Negative words like “no” scares potential new members and visitors away, but also search engines. (Also avoid these words on signs around your grounds).

Search engines work with a point system; the more points, the higher you get in the organic list (unpaid list). For every word which is searched on and is on your club’s website you get a number of points, when they are all on the same page you get more points, when they are behind each other you get even more points, when they are in the exact order you get the highest points.

For instance when somebody searches for “the best naturist club in New Zealand”; if we have on one of our website

pages that in our opinion we are “the best naturist club in New Zealand”, and as we have all the words on our webpage and also in the right order the chances are that we are very high in the result.

This exact way of searching is the reason you have to make a non-associated list and avoid negative words. Although negative words give a negative impression on possible new members and visitors they are not picked up by search engines in that way. For instance “we are not a swingers club”. Somebody who searches on “swingers club” will find you (we may assume that swingers is on your avoid list).

Note: “Sun Club” is a very British term and when you want to be found by tourists as well you need to use “Naturist Club” and “Nudist Club” on your website also.

Easy to read information about improving your site for search engines, can be found on: www.google.com\ webmasters\docs\search-engineoptimization-starter-guide.pdf

Content Management System With a CMS you can manage your website without having any knowledge about website coding. If you can operate a word processor with inserted pictures you can use a Content Management system. Just choose a template which you like and paste your text and pictures over the template’s one. Clubs and affiliates on the gonatural server can choose from a number of CMS programs, each with their own functions and templates. One of the bigger CMS programs is Joomla, look on http://demo.joomla.org/ for a demo or contact me on webmaster@ gonatural.co.nz for more information.

Need more help?

Both NZNF Communications Officer, Donna Miller, and NZNF Internet Coordinator, Hans van Asperdt (pictured below), are available to assist you in improving your website.

Use appropriate colours Colour is critical on web pages, but colours have meanings to people, and using the wrong colour can have the wrong connotation if you’re not careful.

Web pages are - by their very nature international. Even if you intend your page for a specific country or locality it will be seen by other people. And so you should be aware of what the colour choices you use on your web page are saying to people around the world. When you create your web colour scheme keep in mind colour symbolism.

Think local and write global As mentioned above, websites are global and most clubs welcome international tourists to their grounds. You should make sure that things like currencies, measurements, dates and times are clear so that all your readers will know exactly what you mean. gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

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Four Wheel drive into Te Urewera National Park

by Irene Begg

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ourteen intrepid naturists journeyed into the Te Urewera National Park on convoy on a rather cloudy and slightly cool March morning.

The park is known for its remoteness, its forested beauty, its lakes such as Lake Waikaremoana and its stormy history.

We meet up at the Waimana Gorge picnic area. Some full of trepidation, some looking a little anxious as to where we would end up. We were briefed on the description of the type of roads we would be travelling on by our guide Peter, a local hunter and long time member of the BOP Sun Club. Te Urewera Forest is the heart of the legendary “Children of the Mist” country which the Tuhoe people call home. Te Pakau or “8 acres camping ground” as the locals call it, is a Department of Conservation camping area which is 27km up the Matahi Valley from SH2 near Waimana and about 2 hours drive inland from our Sun Club grounds.

The road gets a bit tricky in places with tall bluffs and a few unstable looking boulders perched high above. This sort of reminded me of the programme on television called the “World’s Most Dangerous Roads”... well slightly.

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Some of our group were brave enough to take their two wheel drive cars, to be covered in dust, traverse about six fords and head further and further along the increasingly rough and narrow gravel roads up into the mystical Te Urewera Forest. Peter had us stop for a wee break at the first camping ground area known as Omahuru (Ogilvies) campsite.

There were flush toilets even. We were impressed as the area felt so remote, but here we were refreshed and ready to move on to Te Pakau or 8 Acres to set up for lunch. 8 Acres was once a dairy farm, and the road ends not far past here. If you keep on going up the valley through this farm you will come out on the way to Lake Waikaremoana. Some of the guys braved a swim at 8 Acres. I think they were just showing off and having a competition as to who could be the bravest.

After a snack, three 4 wheel drive vehicles took a few of us up the river known as Otapukawa. We went with the other Pete. He is a real character, a former deer culler who has lots of bush stories and yarns to share. The trip up the river was sort of like the Barry Crump advert of old days, but not so extreme though there was a fair bit of bouncing

up and down and the seat springs got a bit of a hiding that’s for sure. We came across a herd of brumbies; a beautiful foal amongst them, they were happily grazing the far reaches of this stream and didn’t seem fazed by us naturists.

When we reached the ‘point of no return’ we stripped off for the photo shoot, and the other Pete (the driver of our vehicle) lay down in the stream to prove he was tough enough to brave the cold mountain water. The day was wearing on so we reluctantly turned around and lumped and bumped our way back down the stream bed to meet the others at the camping ground and meandered back to the club for a well deserved beverage and bbq.

We thoroughly recommend any of you that visit the Eastern Bay of Plenty to take a day trip into the Te Ureweras.

It’s just a beautiful forest on our back doorstep and the “Children of the Mist” will smile and wave at you as you pass their ‘whares’. Just don’t make too much dust though. There are places to be au naturel. This area is not that overly populated by tourists, but the campsites are popular during the main Christmas/ new year break.

Taranaki Naturist Park gains support from Percy Cousins Trust

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ecently, Taranaki Naturists Club celebrated two very wonderful achievements - and one will possibly help further the other for many years to come.

With the assistance of a loan from Percy Cousins Trust, TNC are enjoying a brand new pool. This will surely help the club to keep growing - an achievement already recognised by the NZNF awarding TNC the Mowlem Trophy in 2013 for the largest increase in members.

The Percy Cousins Trust, established with funds from a number of benefactors over the years, was set up to assist NZNF affiliated clubs and organisations with capital projects at an interest rate much lower than what a bank offers. Affiliates of the NZNF can apply to the Trust, administered by four Trustees, for loans providing certain requirements are satisfied.

So, if your club is planning a large improvement such as roading, a swimming pool etc. maybe an application to PCT could be considered to help with this.

NZNF Secretary June CampbellTong is one of the trustees for PCT so an email to nznf.sec@ gonatural.co.nz would reach the Trust via her. gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

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Nudvan Mystery Safari

Several members of NUDVAN joined a Mystery Safari hosted by Bryan and Ruth from 17th to 22nd January. Described by Christine Bowers as an “absolute cracker” the safari began at Parakai Springs in Auckland.

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t was no surprise that for Saturday’s “A day without bathing suits” the group found a beach. Muriwai beach is certainly a ‘must go’ beach trip.

A visit to the Hare Krishna Temple the following day was the first time for many of us but a very interesting and worthwhile experience. This was our lunch stop, and a nutritious vegetarian lunch was provided.

Perhaps you have seen their large colourfully decorated vehicle in the Auckland Christmas Parade?

Our next port of call was Bethells Beach, where the ants were outnumbered by people! It was just our luck to arrive when some surf championships were taking place. We managed to get a bit closer as the crowd dispersed. Of course some of the NUDVANners found a less populated spot!

Having decided one night was enough, on Monday it was ‘follow the leader’ again; this time to Crystal Mountain, shop and tea rooms. Their Auckland gallery and museum at Crystal Mountain houses New Zealand’s largest selection of crystals and minerals from around the world. Some very interesting pieces, with a wide range of prices of a little to “how much?”

Another interesting stop that is probably missed by many that don’t know about it.

A few of us then travelled together to Counties Sun Club, others made their own way. However Counties were quickly on the phone and we were joined by several of their members for a BBQ which was really neat and so everyone enjoyed a good time.

Thank you Counties, your hospitality was appreciated. Some of the group stayed a night, others two, but all left having had a great safari, and looking were really forward to the next.

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Members were asked to write a few lines sharing their thoughts: • Apart from the weather at the end of the Safari, which we unfortunately couldn’t do anything about, we had a wonderful time. Thanks to all those who came to the swim night at Parakai and those who so willingly followed us about. Seven campervans and one lady in a car who came for the weekend joined Bryan and me. It was great to welcome people from as far as Wellington, Te Awamutu, Thames, Hamilton, Tauranga and Ruakaka.

• Our very first nude Safari. What an experience! So much to see and do. Bring on the next one. As it was also our very first trip to West Auckland, everything was a pleasant surprise... Parakai hot pools, Muriwai beach, gannet colony up close, Hare Krishna temple, Bethells Beach, black sand dunes and Lake Wainamu tramp, the view of the Waitakere Ranges at the Arataki Visitor Centre, Crystal Mountain at Swanson (a paradise for gemstone enthusiasts!) and the very warm welcome from members at Counties Sun Club.

Thank you Nudvan.

• Five intrepid explorers struggled to the top of the towering sand dunes that dam Lake Wainamu [mosquito waters] at Bethells beach. After a quick skinny dip we walked in drizzly rain around the bush clad lake, resisting the opportunity to swim at the Waitohi waterfall [we were wet enough]. With a sigh of relief we were able to follow a stream back without having to once again scale the sand dunes. A great 2½ hour experience.

Leaving the black sand behind, the vans wound their way along the scenic drive to the Arataki Visitors Centre [the pathway to learning] which provides information about the Waitakere Ranges Regional Parks. The sweeping decks enabled panoramic views over the forest canopy, Lower Nihotipu Dam and the Manukau Harbour.

• Apart from learning that there are many different formats with which you can set the GPS we never lost anybody.

From the first day at the pools we had plenty of banter and leg pulling to the Hare Krishna temple where one of our campervans decided to leave early - but without its driver.

Hand brakes are good if you know how to use them. Visiting many attractions out west, people enjoyed the moments and with a fantastic welcome from the members of Counties Sun Club to finish our Safari made memorable memories.

My final word!

Definitely another great Safari arranged by Bryan and Ruth. gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

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Port Nicholson Geriatrics Hash House Harriers visit to Te Marua

by Brent Anderson

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his year the Port Nicholson Geriatrics Hash House Harriers met on the Wellington Naturist Club’s grounds for their 7th annual run from Te Marua.

The weather was better than the last couple of years, when it rained, but was not overly warm. This event has been successful in both raising the club’s profile and also providing an interesting venue for the harriers.

One of the benefits of these visits is that over the years the harriers have all been impressed about how beautiful our grounds are and the great facilities we have. If the subject of naturism or the club comes up in conversation, these people can talk about the great times they have had meeting naturists and enjoying our club.

For those not aware of the Hash House Harriers, they are groups of social runners and walkers that started in Kuala Lumpur in 1938 and have since spread to cities all around the world.

There are currently about 30 groups in New Zealand, including four main ones in Wellington, and there are groups in most areas of New Zealand where there are naturist clubs. Each Tuesday night this group of about 3035 harriers meet at a different venue around the Wellington region for either a 6-8km run or a 3-4 km walk.

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and socialising. This means they have a similar outlook on life to naturists and there are several naturists around the country who are also Hash House Harriers. At weekend events it is traditional for the harriers to have a midnight nude run and skinnydipping is common. In Auckland a couple of groups have used the Auckland Outdoor Naturist Club’s grounds for events.

The harriers rolled in for their official start time of 6:36pm and were - as always given their instructions for the run.

The idea for a Hash House Harriers run is that someone goes out and sets a trail for the pack to follow. The trail stops at various points along the way where they need to find where it restarts. The theory is that the faster runners go out looking for the trail while the slower ones are catching up.

On a well-set trail the pack of people with different athletic abilities should

be able to stay together and all finish about the same time. Instructions were also given about the rest of the evening and the club, although most had been there in previous years.

They were advised that clothing was compulsory on the run, optional on the grounds and prohibited in the swimming pool, spa and sauna. From the club Patrick and our new member Simon joined the running pack, while Jeff and Andrew joined the walkers.

The harriers headed out of the grounds, with the runners’ trail around the roads and the walkers’ through the alleyway before crossing State Highway 2 to the entrance of the golf course. The walkers continued up Twin Lakes Road, while the runners ran through the speedway carpark, the Te Marua golf course and a patch of bush to get to the Kaitoke Regional Park. The walkers had headed down a bush track and through a small creek,

while the runners had to go along the Hutt River, so both packs got their feet wet. The trails then met up and headed from the Twin Lakes back down the roadway to the club.

Back at the club about half a dozen harriers went for a swim (following club rules), while everyone else lined up at the bar to get a drink. Ross and I were rushed off our feet with the sudden influx of harriers wanting drinks.

Later Ross had to put in an emergency call to Shirley to get more beers to restock the fridge. There were also about 10 club members and a couple of visitors congregating at the BBQ area for their evening meals, but they weren’t in for a peaceful night.

The harriers also congregated there for drinks and socializing before our Fines Circle was held. Each week we hold a circle, like a rugby club court session, where our dick-of-the-day

award is presented and other fines given for anything that may or may not have happened on the run. A fine involves sculling (drinking as quickly as you can) a beer or a water (in these days of no drink-driving).

This night our dick-of-the-day award was given to one of our walkers who managed to slip over crossing the small creek and got wet. In amongst many other fines awarded, Patrick was fined for having done every run from the club. To scull his drink he stripped down to club uniform, which was greeted with cheers from the harriers who appreciated the humour.

For our dinner Wayne had cooked up meat patties and eggs on the BBQ, and with other ingredients prepared earlier, people could make their own burgers. He was ably assisted by Helen, Marcel and Jim. After dinner people continued to mix and mingle, before most starting to head home.

A group of us stocked up on drinks and headed to the spa pool. At various times we had 8 harriers plus a couple of visitors to the club and club members in the spa socializing. It was a good time chatting with both the harriers and club members.

Although several of the harriers had used the spa pool in previous years, it was still interesting that once everyone was nude they quickly relaxed and were happy sitting in the spa chatting.

The last group of harriers left the club about 10:30pm.

It was another successful night that the harriers enjoyed, with several asking me to confirm that they will visit again next year. It was also good for the club showing off our grounds and friendly members as well as a fundraiser, making some money from the visitor’s fees, meals and drinks.

The committee will again extend an invitation for next year. gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

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Skinny Dip Tours in the Deep South After many tours in the North Island and the top of the South Island, and much badgering from some of their regular Aussie guests, Rodd and Ruth Pegg went into planning a Deep South tour.

Photos clockwise from right: Riverton Beach, Orchard Club, Aparima.

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reviously, they had been a little reluctant to entertain the idea as the weather and temperature is always at the forefront of most naturists’ minds, especially Australians.

We decided to give it a go and planning started. This involved contacting all the clubs south of Christchurch to see how they felt about a large group descending on them. However it wasn’t with surprise that the clubs all asked “how long do you want to stay?” We then planned out how it fit in all the tourist visits that would be expected.

First stop at Pineglades - a great place for the Aussies to meet after picking up their campervans. It is near the airport and gives everyone a couple of days to get their feet on the ground before setting off.

On the third day we set off, heading over the Arthurs pass to the West Coast, stopping at Hokitika for one night. The talk that night was “Wow! We have never driven a camper under a waterfall” and “Wow! That was steep.” (They didn’t know what was to come).

More wide eyes at the glaciers, with helicopter ride up onto the ice and an overview of our stunning West Coast scenery.

Well, if they thought Arthurs Pass was steep then roll on the Haast Pass with its sheer rock slides and water falls. But a warm welcome was waiting for them as we all pulled into the Alpine Lakes Naturist Club for two nights. A lot of fun was had and a mighty meal put on. 35deg Celsius

had everyone sheltering from the heat during the day.

Queenstown was the next stop with a ride up to the Skyline Gondola Restaurant overlooking Lake Wakatipu, where, with a bit of palm greasing all had window seats to see the sun drift down over the mountains.

The next day a trip to Walter Peak Station for lunch on the steam ship Earnslaw was also well received. One hardy soul even took a paragliding trip to

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mark that off his bucket list.

On again to Te Anau for a bus trip out to Milford Sound and to Manapouri for a tour 2km underground, into the power station.

The next stop was at Aparima, to visit ‘Southern Naturally’ and as its name attests, the southern most naturist club in the world.

Again, we had a great stay and with the fire raging enjoyed a lovely meal followed by some games. We managed to make

page two of the Southland Times the following Monday, with several of our group and members from Aparima pictured chasing waves at Riverton Beach.

Well it had to happen. Yes, it rained on the day we went ‘round through the Catlins’.

The rain made it impossible to get onto the private property where we were going to stay for the night so we carried on to a small campground 10km up the road.

In Dunedin we took a city tour which included Larnach Castle, Natures Wonders Wildlife Tour and the famous Dunedin Chinese Gardens.

Some took the train up the Taieri Gorge Railway and others walked the beautiful St Kilda beach.

Next day a two hour drive found us up at Sutton in Middlemarch and a great stop over at the Orchard Sun Club.

They had talked to Mr. G. Od about turning on the sun

and it was funny to see the Aussies diving for shade again; yet another experience of ‘southern hospitality’, making it a fun stop-over with trout for tea that night.

Will and Shirley Fraser, owners of Mt Menzies Station, a 1400 hectare hill country farm in Hakataramea Valley, hosted the group for two nights and with an array of 4WD vehicles they took us on the most magnificent tour around the back of Lake Benmore to

places no average tourist would ever get to. The day was topped off with a BBQ of fresh home grown lamb. The tour party will be saddened to learn that Will died suddenly in March this year.

On to Mt Cook for lunch at the Hermitage Hotel but unfortunately the top of the mountain was covered with cloud and we came out from lunch to lightly falling snow.

Again heading north for a break at South Canterbury

Sun Club where their pristine grounds and friendly members made a great stopover.

Not too many kilometers to do on the last travel day which saw the group trickle back into Pineglades for the last night before heading back ‘over the ditch’ the next day.

We heard it over and over from the group that even though the southern clubs are small, the hospitality is big, so to all the clubs we visited - a big thank you.

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Naked Overlanders Deep South Trek with Possum I bring you this story on behalf of one of the greatest men I’ve ever known.

A dear friend, leader, mentor, naturist, farmer, partner, father and a man who touched the lives of all who were blessed in meeting him. Sadly, on 28th March 2014, Will Fraser’s life was cut short by the failure of the very thing that made him so special to us all: his great big heart.

I am forever grateful that I joined Will and Shirley on this, our annual 4WD trek, not just because it checked off all of my remaining Must-Do’s in the deep south, but because I got to spend a whole stack of quality time with close friends doing what we love most.

Due to other commitments, some of our group weren’t able to join us on the Naked Overlanders 4x4 tour this year, so just the three of us made the 9 day trek around the deep south starting and finishing at Will and Shirley’s central Otago property Mount Menzies Station.

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ay 1: Mt. Menzies to Alpine Lakes Naturist Club grounds at Lowburn via a side-trip up Ahuriri Valley where Will discovered he’d forgotten the battery for his camera. And so the gibing began! I explored the valley by myself while he and Shirley shot back to retrieve it.

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Cromwell before ascending the Carrick Range, over Duffers Saddle, and down the other side into the desolate Nevis Valley (population 3; sometimes 14 and growing!)

We stopped for a picnic lunch near the Nevis Valley Bowling Club and got a few photos before carrying on to meet up with SH6 at Garston, on to Mossburn for a takeaway dinner, then up to Mavora Lakes in time

to set up camp before dark.

I arrived with a hissing tyre and Will commented that it was because it was attached to a Land Rover.

His smarting was shortlived: minutes later he reminded me I’d promised to make him a new tentpole bag and bring it with me on this trip. I duly produced said bag from my superior vehicle and he looked impressed.

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I got out of arms-reach before he unfolded it and saw the Land Rover slogan emblazoned on it! Though he abused the hell out of me he saw the funny side and actually laughed so hard he cried!

Eventually he admitted it was going to take some doing to beat me on that score, and every day from then on he’d quip something along the lines of “you just wait till I think of some way to get you back!”

Day 3: From Lake Mavora we drove through the Mount Nicholas Road to come out at Lake Wakatipu and Walter Peak Station just in time for the arrival of the steamship Earnslaw, which disembarked another squillion Asian tourists to add to the squillions already darting about the gardens with their cameras.

Quite unexpectedly we managed to get a quick naked photo at the lake shore as the ship docked, with many of them only metres away and completely unaware!

After lunch we drove back over to Mossburn, fixed my tyre, then on to Lake Hauroko to make camp among the supersized sandflies.

Day 4 was spent with Roffy; owner/operator of Hump Ridge Jet. After a gentle cruise around New Zealand’s deepest lake and a local history/flora/fauna lesson, we were soon skimming down the 27km of grade 3 rapids that is the Wairaurahiri River, all the way to the Southern Ocean.

We got some nudie photos at the coast then were treated to the most delicious wild-

Clockwise from top left: Over the Borland toward South Arm of Lake Manapouri; Lindus Pass Summit: Hamming it up in the Nevis Valley; Will with his new tent-pole bags!

foods BBQ lunch at Hump Ridge Lodge, before a short walk to the swing-bridge where we met up with the jetboat again. A ‘possum-stop gate’ placed in the middle of the bridge by DOC didn’t have me stumped for too long.

Back up the river to the jetty at the lakeshore, more photos (this time with Roffy and a couple of southern gals), then over to Lake Monowai to camp there for

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the night. Reminiscent of the campground at Lake Alexandrina on a previous trip, the place was jampacked. Yet again, eagle-eyed Possum spotted a small gap in the roadside scrub not far away and soon enough we were set up in our own little private spot. Bliss!

Day 5: For some years I’d wanted to traverse the Borland Saddle Road which was made to put the pylons through for the Manapouri

Power scheme. Apart from the now-inaccessible Wilmot Pass road, this is the westernmost driveable road in NZ, and brought us out at Lake Manapouri’s South Arm where we had lunch before heading back again.

Though the track is very steep and narrow in places, the awesome scenery all the way through its 40km length is well worth the effort.

After a few more naked photos and a swim at

Clockwise from above: At the Hump Ridge lodge end of the 27km jetboat ride; Dad’s little helpers at Aparima; Top of the Borland Saddle, Island Lake in the backround.

Clifden’s historic suspension bridge, we made it to the Southern Sun Club’s grounds at the old Aparima School to have a couple of nights in a real bed.

Day 6: Derryn and Bevan brought their three little helpers out to the club, and the eight of us drove down to Riverton to spend a couple of hours enjoying being naked on the beach while the kids played -and buried each other.

Day 7: We packed up

and headed further south, stopping in at the E Hayes & Sons Hardware Store in Invercargill to see the real ‘World’s Fastest Indian’ then on down to Bluff, where the Land Rover decided to kiss 5th gear goodbye (as far from home as I could possibly be).

“Hmm, is this Karma paying me back for Will’s tent-pole bag?”

At Sterling Point, Will was able to get a sneaky quick nude photo in front of the famous Bluff road sign as the

tourists were momentarily gazing elsewhere. I left him standing naked in a panic for some time while I pretended the camera was having trouble focussing, only to tell him the next day I’d actually taken the picture as soon as he had been ready.

Back in Invercargill I’d managed to get an appointment to visit Bill Richardson’s Truck Museum, the biggest in the country, possibly the southern hemisphere.

Shirley wasn’t interested so she waited in the car for us. When we returned, we found her in an RV parked next to us with the owner’s wife, sampling their beverages and so not perturbed if we had taken a lot longer to come back.

After a refreshing walk to Slope Point (southernmost point of the South Island) where the other tourists weren’t fazed by our nudity, and a quick stop in Curio Bay

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to see the petrified forest and the Little Blue Penguins, we went on to Purakaunui Falls where we had the whole place to our naked selves. Not long before dark we arrived at another sweet little private camping spot I’d found on another trip a few years back, and we set up for the next two nights at the waters edge of Catlins Lake.

Day 8: While cooking breakfast the next morning we were interrupted by a woman with a camera that, after a brief pause upon seeing Will and me naked, just walked right through our campsite to take some photos of the lake.

We said “g’day” and as she hastily made her way back past us I casually offered her a pancake. Back to her camper out on the road she quickly disappeared, probably thinking we were an odd ‘couple’ (Shirley was still asleep in the tent out of view).

Only a few hundred metres from Purakaunui Falls lives Will’s cousin and her husband, so we spent the day being chauffeured around their large tracts of land among the native bush and along parts of the Catlins coastline, seeing a lot of ‘wild NZ’ that the tourists don’t get the chance to see.

On day 9 we packed up at Possum’s campsite and headed back to Mount Menzies via Dunedin.

Three days later, based at ALNC again, we joined some of their members for the Lynyrd Skynyrd Concert at Gibbston Valley Winery. What an awesome way to finish off what was definitely our biggest and best Naked Overlanders Trek yet.

Above: Stewart Island from Riverton Beach; Riverton Rocks.

I spent the next week at Mount Menzies with Will and Shirley, enjoying a trip to the top of the Hunter Hills during that time where we could see all the way to the Port Hills of Christchurch.

Then while hunting wallabies with their son, Jaron, we managed to smash the front suspension on Will’s Toyota

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Surf a little too easily, and had to walk home.

There was ‘some debate over who was to blame’, but throughout I maintained that the Toyota was definitely not as robust as a Land rover. For the record I was not driving at the time!

The following Friday Rodd and Ruth Pegg and

Clockwise from above: ‘Quick take the shot! There’s some tourists coming!’; Slope Point, southernmost point of South Island; From the top of the Hunter Hills, Christchurch Port Hills just visible in the distance; Will’s last ride - on a Toyota of course!

their Skinny Dip Tour party arrived; then a group of us took them all on a 4x4 drive around the Kirkliston Range and down to Lake Benmore.

I took off home the next day, with a whole lot more experiences in the memorybank and apprehensive at the thought of what Will was going to do to pay me back

for that tent-pole bag! Of course I had to call him the next week to tell him that even with no 5th gear, at least my faithful Land Rover still got me home!

Not long after receiving the sad and shocking news of Will’s death five weeks later, I experienced the poignant realisation that he would never pay me back for the

tent-pole bag that we’d laughed about every time he’d mentioned it since.

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Nude adventure in Marlborough

Sun, sounds, sea and food with good company. Kay Hannam and her naked chef, Brian Williams, found a winning combination

Photos by Dave Care, and Vanessa and Daniel Jackson

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aturday 8am and it’s Sandra calling to say “Alan tells me it’s raining in Havelock.”

“I don’t want to hear that Sandra”. “Well what do you want to do?” was the reply. I took this as an opportunity to cancel if we all agreed.

With the promise of a quick call back, Brian headed over to the rec’ room where our visitors were busy cooking up a storm in the kitchen and on the barbecue, in anticipation of a great day out. “Cancel?” Came the chorus. “No way!”

That settled it. Parky’s coach was due at 9am anyway, so there was fat chance we could change our plans. I suppose we could have gone on an all day wine tour. Goodness knows there are more than eighty vineyards in the Marlborough region to choose from.

Before you could shake a leg, our group were settled into comfortable seats with warm jackets stashed on board in case the weather worsened. Brian loaded a couple of chilly bins with lunch ingredients, others loaded theirs containing

various liquid refreshments and with a flip of the switch, and some cruisey music, we were on our way down State Highway 63.

The drive to Havelock from Wairau Valley is only 40kms, and so we were in plenty of time as we pulled up at the Marina where the colourful BBQ CAT was moored. The rain had dissipated to a slight drizzle and there

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was “enough blue sky to make a pair of sailors trousers” as my mother used to say.

A warm welcome aboard from Sandra and before long, captain Alan had cranked up the pontoon style catamaran to cruising speed as we headed out into the Kenepuru Sound while various bods shed their layers of unnecessary clothing. The gentle

hum of conversation on the fore and aft decks and covered deck in between rose to an excited babble as we pointed out various landmarks and toasted each other with various beverages.

Coffee and tea was provided by our hosts as well as a large bin of ice to keep the beers cool.

By the time we nosed into Ferndale Scenic Reserve the sun was making a real effort. We were all keen as mustard to take the 20 minute bush walk around to the adjoining bay.

Suffice to say, the swim back in the calm Marlborough Sounds for many of us was in one word - delicious! In fact we just splashed around like seals for quite some time as the water was quite warm.

I spotted the silly hat and smelled the aroma of hot food and figured the Naked Chef and his elves were cooking hamburgers on the large stainless steel barbecue. Sandra miraculously provided plastic plates and cutlery for everyone.

She thinks of everyone this gal.

Of course Brian in his silly hat cooled down in the calm waters after an hour in the galley. All too soon we were advised of the tidal change and we reluctantly settled down for the cruise back down the sounds. Our disappointment was soon overcome when Alan pulled into yet another pristine and calm bay for some more serious skinny dipping. It was great fun until some dickhead boatie roared along inside us about ten metres from where we were swimming, mouthing off all manner of obscenities.

His action was evidence that some sort of registration is necessary for all boats, not just commercial vessels.

The guy was clearly in the wrong and rude with it but was free to go about unchecked.

But we weren’t about to let him spoil our day and we were more than happy by the time we arrived back in the marina at 4pm.

We quickly forgot our tiredness following the journey back to Wai-natur as we all dived into the solar-heated swimming pool and readied ourselves for dinner that evening, many of us

complete with neckties and decorative ‘jewellery’. Several willing hands made light work of setting up tables outside the rec’ room; the location proved to be a winner, especially when the candles were lit and our jazzy disco bulb lighting up the scene.

Another Naked Chef, by the name of Paul Hayde, had been busy in our kitchen cooking delicious beef curry

and rice, Cajun chicken and vegetables.

We even made room for a slice of his gorgeous chocolate tart, with mixed berries and ice-cream.

Scrolling through the photos taken during the day completed our afterdinner entertainment and caused plenty of chuckles among the group, with several planning to return for next year’s Nude Adventure. gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

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Boating Nude Following the Nude Adventure in Marlborough last February, Janie Buckland wrote about her experience for gonatural magazine

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s a very conservative nudist, I never thought I would get involved in a naturist group and write about it!

As we left after a wonderful weekend in Blenheim, Kay suggested I write about it.

“Hmm” I thought, could I?” So here I will give it a go.

My husband and I often spend time at home nude.

I enjoy sunbathing nude, but our place is private.

This summer however my husband found Wai-natur and suggested we go.

We spent a weekend in October, which happened to be the ‘Big Splash’ weekend; Kay and Brian’s opening weekend. We came again when the weather and pool was warmer. That weekend we heard about the boat trip in February. Although in the middle of being out of our house and home due to EQC repairs, we decided it would be fabulous to attend and relax for a day on the water.

Twenty-four people climbed into a bus heading for Havelock. The weather slightly cool, but as the morning progressed, we headed out into the Pelorus Sound, one by one shedding clothes; a mix of all walks of life coming together to enjoy nature, water, food and freedom of clothes.

We had international participants, and people from various parts of New Zealand. Wherever we came from, it didn’t matter as we all enjoyed the day.

We stopped at a beautiful

beach where we could all get off and enjoy a nature walk.

Some braved the cool sea water as Brian cooked and Dave and others helped to assemble - delicious burgers for lunch.

For any new person hesitating like me, whether to experience a naturist place, I have enjoyed the easy atmosphere. Keep your clothes on like me for health

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reasons, or take them off.

All is acceptable. Without clothes, there is a shedding of pretences and stigmatisms.

We meet at a totally open level and share life’s enjoyment with renewed freedom - like a child.

We had many laughs, many enjoyable moments; one of my favourite moments, causing a lot of laughter, a reverse strip tease. One

person started and before we knew others were joining the fun. Although this was the end of the boat trip, it was not the end of the day’s events.

A formal dinner was being prepared back at Wai-natur.

Loads of fun, good company and food.

Thanks Kay and Brian for organising a great day for us all.

Look forward to the next event we can attend.

WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE With another great weekend coming up, Phil Matthews - Organiser of the Central Otago Rail Trail WNBR - admitted he had plenty to worry about.

Photos by Wilma Kremer

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romoting the ride via the naturist community, bike stores, newspaper, radio, web sites, email, magazine and sponsors all added to the mix; as well as ensuring there were enough helpers and support crew on the day kept me busy up to WNBR day on Sunday 16 March 2014.

After a great day at the annual K-Cup Miniten Yankee Tournament, held at The Orchard Sun Club, there was a worrying night as we had been told tropical Cyclone Lusi was on its way threatening to cancel our fifth year of this event. There was heavy rain overnight but we woke up to overcast skies, no wind and no rain!

Wilma and I headed out to Ngapuna Station to put up the first banner and then back to the start to put up the second.

People started arriving and the usual body paint was applied on some and photos taken. We were off with our great support crew following along on the road.

This was a truly International event with a couple from America who had travelled 300km to join us and had spent the previous day cleaning their bikes for the event; and Lee from Alaska joined our happy crew. A total of thirteen cyclists took part from the youngest to the oldest and even someone who was the bravest, who after a fall, continued to the end of the ride.

We met up with other trail riders who smiled and tapped hands with us and some took photos of our ride.

More photos were taken after our arrival at Ngapuna Station. We then headed back to finish at the Orchard Sun Club with a ‘sausage sizzle’.

We were truly grateful to those who stayed behind to have all

the onions, sausages, salads and sponge cake ready for the bike ride participants. They had also lit the fire ensuring the clubhouse was nice and cosy.

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Counties Sun Club 40th Anniversary Celebration 40th

Birthday Celebrations were held at Counties Sun Club on 13th and 14th April. People came from near and far to join with us in celebrating this milestone birthday. It was a pleasure to see some old members and of course our good friends from other clubs.

Despite poor weather predictions, we were gifted with the last offerings of summer for a great weekend. A combination of cool people and good weather made for a fun gathering.

The weekend involved lots of talking, eating and drinking, mingled with games such as Miniten and Kubb. A few brave hearts had a swim.

On Saturday evening during the BBQ, we raised a glass of bubbly to past and present members who had started the club and currently maintain it today. During the weekend we discussed how the club has changed in past 40 years and we speculated what’s in store for the next 40 years. We’re fortunate to be able to say our club has endured the years – good and bad – and is once again growing steadily.

After our meal, came the birthday cake, then Lesley, our president, gave a seriously short but heartfelt speech thanking everyone for making the day so special. To top off the evening, we received an awesome surprise, when North Island Vice-Pres-

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ident, Nick Lowe, presented Counties with a congratulatory Certificate from the NZNF. As Sunday rolled to a close it was pretty sad to say goodbye to everyone as they packed up and left for home.

Counties would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined us and sent good wishes for this celebration.

You know what they say …“Life begins at 40!”

SKINNY-DIPPING DOWN A MOONBEAM is an annual event taking place throughout New Zealand on the night of the February full moon.

Fred Bear’s Song: to the tune of The Teddy Bear’s Picnic

If you go down to the beach tonight You’re sure of a big surprise If you go down to the beach tonight You needn’t go in disguise For every BARE that ever there was Will be out there for certain because Tonight’s the night we skinny-dip down a moonbeam!

Happy days for naturists!

The happy naturists are having a lovely time tonight.

Watch them, catch them unawares.

Come out and join them in the evening light.

See them gaily gad about; they love to play and shout They never have any cares.

At nine o’clock the full moon is shining upon the sparkling sea Hurrah for the Freddy Bares!

Canterbury free beachers Alan and Heather, sent this report:

Photos by Steve Howard

This was the best night of the three years that we have been promoting the event.

For the participants it was a balmy breeze: for the textile observers it appeared to be chilly!

The sea was illuminated by the silver globe, providing a glittering path on the ocean. The skinny-dippers, Free Beach members and non-members, were a great mix of age and gender, united in enjoyment of the freedom from soggy togs and the adventure of swimming down a moonbeam.

It was a great moonbeam too!

Thank you to our photographers for recording the naked truth of the evening.

It was at a beach near us, with like-minded people and supported by a textile audience that may join us next time we meet for such a joyous occasion. gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

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New Zealand Naturist Clubs and Resorts North Island: Waitata Bay Bay of Islands Tel: 09 403 8586 Email: waitatabay@waitatabay.co.nz www.waitatabay.co.nz Eden Naturally 510 Owhiwa Rd, Onerahi Parua Bay, Whangarei 0192 Phone: +64 9 436 1938 Email: info@edennaturally.co.nz www.edennaturally.co.nz

Rotota Sun Club Inc. PO Box 1164 Taupo 3351.

Grounds: 07 333 7105 Email: rototasunclub@gonatural.co.nz rotota.gonatural.co.nz Taranaki Naturists Club Inc.

297 Brown Rd, RD42, Waitara, 4382 Tel: 06 752 3879, 06 754 4658 Mob. 027 444 2941 Email: taranaki.naturists.club@gonatural.co.nz www.taranakinaturistsnz.com

Serendipity Park Naturist Homestay 589 Whakapirau Road, RD1, Maungaturoto, 0583 Tel: 09 431 9188 Email: stay@serendipitypark.co.nz www.serendipitypark.co.nz

Hawkes Bay Naturist Club Inc. PO Box 551 Napier, 4140.

Mob: 027 450 0557 Email: hawkesbaynaturally@gonatural.co.nz hawkesbay.gonatural.co.nz

Auckland Naturist Orewa aka Hibiscus Coast Sun Club Inc. PO Box 128 Orewa, 0946.

Tel: 09 427 6484 Mob: 027 1357545 Email: hibiscus-coast@gonatural.co.nz www.aucklandnaturist.co.nz

Manawatu Naturist Club Inc. PO Box 980 Palmerston North, 4440.

Mob: 027 390 4428 Email: pro@mannatclub.com www.manawatunaturistclub.co.nz

Auckland Outdoor Naturist Club Inc. PO Box 95235, Swanson Waitakere 0653.

Tel: 09 833 9209 Email: aonc.sec@gonatural.co.nz www.aonc.org.nz Auckland Sun Club Inc PO Box 20257 Glen Eden, 0641 Auckland Tel: 09 814 9973 Email: asc@gonatural.co.nz asc.gonatural.co.nz Counties Sun Club Inc. 112 Ramarama Road, Ramarama Drury RD3, Auckland 2579 Tel: 027 296 2795 (grounds) Email: counties@gonatural.co.nz www.countiessunclub.com Waikato Outdoor Society Inc. PO Box 619 Hamilton 3240 Mob: 027 631 6883 Email: waikato.outdoor@gonatural.co.nz waikato.gonatural.co.nz Katikati Naturist Park 149 Wharawhara Road RD2, Katikati, 3178.

Tel: 0800 4 567 567 Email: info@katikati-naturist-park.co.nz www.katikati-naturist-park.co.nz Bay of Plenty Sun Club Inc. PO Box 22 Matata, 3194 Tel: 027 440 5157 Email: bopsc@gonatural.co.nz bopsun.gonatural.co.nz

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Wellington Naturist Club Inc. PO Box 2854, Wellington 6140.

Tel: 04 526 7853, Mob: 027 3306 212 Email: secretary@wellingtonnaturists.co.nz www.wellingtonnaturists.co.nz

New Zealand wide: Free Beaches NZ Inc PO Box 20-295 Bishopdale, Christchurch 8543 Tel: 06 879 9262 or 03 310 6447 Email: fredbear@freebeaches.org.nz www.freebeaches.org.nz

New Zealand Naturists PO Box 16095 Bethlehem Tauranga 3147 Email: nznaturists@gonatural.co.nz www.gonatural.co.nz/nznaturists.html NZ NUDVAN Club Inc. PO Box 619, Hamilton 3240 Email: nudvan@gonatural.co.nz nudvan.gonatural.co.nz

South Island: Nelson Sun Club Inc. PO Box 33, Upper Moutere, Nelson 7144 Mob: 027 710 8025 Email: sunrise@nelsonnaturally.co.nz www.nelsonnaturally.co.nz

Wai-natur Naturist Park 2704 State Highway 63 Wairau Valley, RD1 Blenheim 7271 Tel: 03 5722 681 Email: info@naturist.co.nz www.naturist.co.nz Pineglades Naturist Club Inc. PO Box 1823 Christchurch, 8140.

Mob: 021 052-2528 Email: pineglades@gonatural.co.nz pineglades.gonatural.co.nz South Canterbury Sun Club Inc. PO Box 13 Geraldine, 7956.

Tel: 021 123 5904 Email: scsc@gonatural.co.nz scsc.gonatural.co.nz The Orchard Sun Club Inc. PO Box 5460, Dunedin 9058 Tel: 03 476 3875 Email: orchard@gonatural.co.nz orchard.gonatural.co.nz Mt Menzies Station Naturist Farmstay Hakataramea, Central Otago Tel: 03 4360 442 Email: mtmenzies@farmside.co.nz www.mtmenzies.co.nz Alpine Lakes Naturist Club Inc. PO Box 18 Clyde, Central Otago, 9341 Tel: 0266031439 Email: alpinelakes@gonatural.co.nz alpinelakes.gonatural.co.nz Southern Naturally Inc. Postal address: 68 Clifden Highway RD1 Tuatapere 9691 Tel/Fax: 03 221 7092 Email: southernnaturally@gonatural.co.nz southernsun.gonatural.co.nz

New Zealand Naturist Federation President: Wendy Lowe Mob: 027 363 0407 Email: nznf.pres@gonatural.co.nz Secretary: June Campbell-Tong Tel: 04 2347 918 Email: nznf.sec@gonatural.co.nz PO Box 1359 Wellington 6140, New Zealand www. gonatural.co.nz Communications: Donna Miller Mob: 021 0694014 Email: info@gonatural.co.nz

What’s on

Yet Another Big Splash! - Wai-natur Naturist Park - Photo Brian Williams

For further contact details, check the listing of NZNF affiliated clubs and resorts on the opposite page, or the website: www.gonatural.co.nz 24 May 2014 Masquerade Ball Auckland Outdoor Naturist Club 21 June 2014 Mid-winter pot luck dinner Alpine Lakes Naturist Club 21 June 2014 Polar Plunge!

At a beach near you!

Spencer Beach, Heyders Rd Petone - Orewa?

Free Beaches NZ 19 July 2014 Mid-winter Robbie Burns Rotota Sun Club 11-14 September 2014 INF World Congress Lough Allen Hotel and Spa Drumshambo Co Leitrim, Ireland 26 October 2014 Yet Another Big Splash!

Wai-natur Naturist Park 28 Dec 2014 - 3 Jan 2015 Rapere Film Festival NZNF Festival Hawkes Bay Naturist Club 20-22 February 2015 Nude Adventure in Marlborough A weekend of food and fun at Wai-natur Naturist Park

Sunday 22 Feb 2015 Nude Golf International at Wairau Valley Golf Club Hosts: Wai-natur Naturist Park 28 Dec 2015 - 3 Jan 2016 Pineglades Rocks NZNF Festival Pineglades Naturist Club Pineglades Naturist Club Chow and Chatter Last Thursday of each month The Orchard Sun Club Warm swim nights on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month from 5-6pm. $7 payable at the door.

In “the cooler months” they also have a Spa and Sauna session on the 1st Sunday of each month from early March, at Lucky 7, Rattray St, Dunedin. $10 for 2 hours, 5 – 7 pm and features spa, sauna and steam rooms; a plunge pool and lounge. Feel free to bring drinks and nibbles.

Parakai Springs Naturist Days 1st and 3rd Friday of each month 10am-10pm. Please book as it is comfortable for only 30 persons.

Contact letsgetnakednz@gmail.com Please note Palm Springs Nude Swim Nights are now cancelled.

Auckland Sun Club Sunday Saunas and Potluck meal Contact: (09) 814 9973 Waikato Outdoor Society Wednesday night Barbecues 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month Wellington Naturists Spa, Sauna and massage Second Sunday of the month 2-5pm Wellington Naturists Catered dinner last Saturday of the month Free Beaches NZ Wellington Region hold a spa night on the first Sunday of each month at Kilbernie Spa. Summer events mainly occur on the first Sunday at Breaker Bay; and third Sunday at Peka Peka Beach.

But if the weather’s right - don’t wait!

Email: linda.geeves@xtra.co.nz Free Beaches NZ Canterbury Region Swimnights: Burwood physio pool, every first and third Saturday, 6.30pm-7.30pm. For email: beab06@hotmail.com

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Wellington Naturist Club Close to the city - but a world away

• Family friendly environment featuring heated large pool and children’s pool, sauna and spa, miniten and volleyball courts, petanque, pitch & putt golf, children’s playground, large hall, bush walk, barbeque • Cabins, powered and nonpowered campsites • Day visitors welcome

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NZ Naturists Secretary Position At the NZNF AGM, Colin Basire advised he would be standing down from the role of NZ Naturists Secretary at the end of 2014 so we are seeking someone interested in taking on this position.

NZ Naturists is a group for people who are often new to naturism but might not be ready yet to join a club, or they may not have a club in their area.

Therefore we see this as a vital role in introducing and encouraging people to the benefits of nude recreation.

The Secretary’s functions include: • Process applications • Receive payment for membership • Order NZNF Membership Cards • Organise subscription for gonatural Magazine • Produce a quarterly newsletter outlining upcoming social events in naturist venues throughout New Zealand • Maintain the database/stats If you are interested in knowing more about this role or would like to apply, please contact the President nznf.pres@gonatural.co.nz

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Taranaki Naturist Club 297 Brown Road, RD 42, Waitara Spacious campgrounds set in a private rural setting.

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MANAWATU NATURIST CLUB

A congenial naturist environment on spacious private grounds, in a delightful rural setting. We offer: • Full camping facilities with powered sites and kitchen facilities.

• A large, modern clubhouse with indoor games facilities and social area.

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Our little patch of Paradise has to be experienced -

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NEW ZEALAND NATURISTS Supporters of naturism in New Zealand For naturists who wish to enjoy the benefits of belonging to the social naturist community throughout New Zealand.

Members receive the gonatural magazine, newsletters and NZNF membership cards.

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ROTOTA CARETAKER Rotota - the ultimate Kiwi naturist experience.

Fancy being a key part of Rotota? Do you have the skills and time to offer your services as a caretaker through the summer of 2014-15?

Situated in the heart of the North Island in 22 acres of beautiful native bush with hot streams, geothermal attractions, Lake Ohakuri and tranquility this is an opportunity not to be missed.

We are ideally looking for a couple to provide general maintenance, grass cutting, meeting and greeting visitors and members. In return we provide accommodation, heating and services and expenses, and a slice of our very own paradise.

If this sounds like you and you are available between Labour weekend 2014 and Easter 2015 and you would like more information please contact the President. presidentrotota@gmail.com or view http://rotota.gonatural.co.nz/

Wanted – Preferably alive!

Cabin mate for a cruise. Nude, of course!

I am hoping to arrange a cruise for the 2015 NZ winter. I was thinking of the Caribbean, but am open to suggestions.

The pricing for these is based on double occupancy cabins and I am a widower without a partner at present. I am therefore looking to see if anyone else is in a similar boat (so to speak).

It is necessary to book well in advance to get the more affordable cabins hence the 2015 date. Holland America Line, amongst many others, run these and I have been on one of their ships. It was great! Check out www.cruisenude.com. I am also open to other ideas.

I am a heterosexual, 60 something, male. A male or female companion of similar age would be fine.

Kay Hannam of Wai-natur will provide a reference for me. Please contact Peter 021 238 1260. Call or txt and I will call you back.

Kay and Brian need your help!

• Are you a physically fit, non-smoking, naturist single or couple?

• Do you have your own accommodation?

• Would like to live in a secure and peaceful naturist park?

• Do you enjoy gardening, cleaning and meeting people?

• Would you like to help with the park’s operation?

If you can answer “yes” to the above, please give us a call on 03 5722681 or txt 021 326 199 or email info@naturist.co.nz Hours of work are flexible and by mutual agreement.

Kay Hannam and Brian Williams Wai-natur Naturist Park 2704 SH63, Wairau Valley RD1, Blenheim 7271

Letters to the editor Nude swims in Auckland Hello Kay I am not a member of a naturist club, but enjoy the freedom when I can fit it in.

I used to occasionally go to the nude Saturday at Palm Springs in West Auckland. I went with a group from a nowdefunct gay naturist group, “Sunboys”. The pool was well attended, but has now ceased to have a nude night. I saw it as quite a risky night out, because there was just too much travel afterwards to take home a very relaxed, ready-for-sleep body.

Many of those who went travelled some distance from more central areas of Auckland.

It seems to me there could be good patronage if a central Auckland swimming pool was opened one night per month for nude bathing. A suitable venue could be the War Memorial public pool in Onehunga, operated by Auckland City.

It has a large spa pool and sauna. I wonder if its smaller, but well-heated pool could have its temperature raised for the occasion. I don’t think that would cost a lot of money because the heater would then be switched off for the rest of the night, to restore the temperature to normal the next day. The place is private from prying eyes.

It astounds me that Auckland does not have such a handy facility already.

The climate in the Auckland City is one of accommodation and encouragement of minority groups, eg the Gay Pride events, and many ethnic events.

I wonder if you have any ideas on: - Has an attempt been made to do this in the past? (And failed? If so, why?)

- Any suggestions or warnings on trying to organise such a regular event. (I reckon that might be pretty difficult on my own) I do wonder if the reason it has not happened in the past may be because it could conflict with the attendance (and balance sheet) for naturist groups on the fringes of Auckland. But they may actually benefit if the venue caught on and introduced more Aucklanders to the pleasures of naturism.

Any comments?

Kind regards Gordon Palmer 09 625 9656

The reluctant naturist Dear Kay I’m a member of the BoP Naturists and NZN and therefore get the magazine.

The magazine makes a good talking point in our family in which I am the only regular naturist.

I must congratulate you on the latest edition, the variation in articles is great, especially “The Reluctant Naturist” I know many in this situation.

Also “Paradise Found” , good to see people helping to normalise naturist activities and being bold enough to get some mates together for an outing.

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Around & About . . .

Bay of Plenty Sun Club

After enjoying the increasingly warm temperatures of our swimming pool some of us at Bay of Plenty Sun Club decided we should challenge one of our neighbouring naturist clubs to a water volley tournament - namely Rotota. We had this over inflated sense of being pretty darn good when it came to water volley ball, having had many opportunities over summer and the previous summer to practice this team sport. We sent off an invitation and Rotota gladly accepted with comments like they intended to thrash us and beat us at our own game... Haha we thought, they haven’t got a pool to practice in like us, they have the lake/river but no net like we do surely we would be safe.

The weekend of 14 to 16 February turned out to be a glorious fine weekend, a naturist’s delight weather wise, and we were grateful we weren’t met with grey skies. We had even arranged for Mrs Whippy to come along and sell a few well earned ice creams in the afternoon heat. Our President Hans organised two teams from each club, which had to have at least one woman player in each team. The Friday was Valentine’s Day and for those romantic naturists we had organised a shared pot luck

to achieve had been done. We wanted to have a fun sporting weekend with our neighbouring club Rotota, as we are all naturists, we enjoy the same lifestyle, we are all passionate about promoting naturism in this country and we made some new friends. We have been invited over to Rotota to compete against them with the Ballista challenge, and yes they will be back again to Bay of Plenty Sun Club, so we have another chance to claim our trophy. Rotota agreed this would be a great annual event.

Irene Begg

Orchard Sun Club Ruby Anniversary 1st November 2014

40 Years as ‘The Orchard’ and 25 years since the opening of our grounds at Sutton.

Past members and members of affiliated clubs are invited to join us in celebrating 40 years of ‘The Orchard Sun Club’ and 25 years on our current grounds at Sutton - Middlemarch.

Events include ‘Mix-n-mingle’ on Friday night and a three course catered meal followed by a dance on Saturday evening plus activities over the weekend.

For further information and to register your interest please view the contact details for The Orchard Sun Club in the NZNF Listing on page 28.

K-Cup Miniten Yankee Tournament

dinner consisting of sweet chocolate treats and desserts, candles and champagne bubbles, the spa pool area even was adorned with candles. I think that even the less romantic types had an enjoyable dinner with both clubs coming together and relaxing on this fine February evening. It was a great opportunity to chew the fat - I mean steak - and eye up our opponents. Just letting them know subtly that we were pretty darn good at this water volleyball lark and we were confident we would be keeping the trophy we had purchased especially to mark the beginning of this annual event.

Well they say “One should never count one’s chickens”. As it panned out you see, Rotota won the trophy, yes that’s right they won First Prize, our BOP No. 1 team came second. You could say perhaps the evening before we may have got our opponents fired up as they were very, I mean very competitive, and there was more than one challenge made to our Umpire Howie. All in good fun though, it was hilarious at times.

We were over the moon about the success of the whole weekend, even though Bay of Plenty came second in the A Team, our B team came first in their group. What we set out 38 gonatural Issue 229, June 2014

This year in the middle of March in Middlemarch, players and spectators were up on last year’s tournament. Visitors started arriving Friday afternoon onwards and with the club and grounds looking great there were a lot of positive comments to be heard. Friday night was a good “catch up” with lots of laughter and plenty to talk about. The arrival of Saturday brought competitors out early to enjoy the beautiful day and a chance to get a few practice shots in before the serious miniten started at midday; a few new faces taking to the court to try their chance to hold that K-Cup Trophy for a year. The previous winner was there to ensure his chance of retaining it - which he did – Well done Kevin!

A tight game all round with just one point between the winner and runner up; going to be good next year for sure.

Afternoon tea was a resounding success with plenty of cakes, bikkies, scones and slices to sample. Thank you to all who provided their delicious baking. This was followed by nibbles and prize giving while the kids tried their hand at miniten. Evening meal was amazing with favourable comments from members and visitors alike. Desserts were varied and yummy. Well done everybody - your efforts were very much appreciated.

Overall it was a great weekend for the K-Cup and a great time was had by all. Thanks to those who purchased pizzas and cheese rolls over the weekend and to those who travelled near and far to make this day a success. See you all again next year.

Julie Haldane

Around & About . . .

Free Beaches NZ

Since our AGM party at Parakai Springs in August, quite a number of things have taken our attention: on the last day of the year, a presence at the Guinness World Record Skinny-dip attempt at Midway Beach in Gisborne got us ‘in the door’ with the possibility of having an official presence there at the end of this year. (Although a repeat of the event itself is yet to be confirmed by BW Camping.) If it happens though, a contingent from the Rally at Hawkes Bay could also be a possibility.

During October the Christchurch membership had helped with a Beach Cleanup at Spencerville, in co-

operation with City Council Park Rangers, who provided bags, gloves, etc. After a busy but chilly day, some brave souls even felt the need for a quick dip to cool off.

We now have a ‘Trip Register’ on our website which is simply a register of interest of your intention to be somewhere suitable for others to join you. The entries have included several FBNZ events such as our Day without Bathing Suits and the Skinny-dip down a Moonbeam, held in January and February.

love to see you, them and everyone else at that inaugural event. More in next issue.

Coming up this month: our contribution to the Polar Plunges around the country on June 21st is expected to include events from Auckland to Dunedin - check our sites for detailed updates.

John Lowe

Rapere Film Festival

The programme is starting to firm up now, with the live entertainment all confirmed. This includes a blues group, a live band from Wellington (those of you who attended Nick and Wendy’s wedding at Wellington Club last year will remember In Like Flynn), a DJ or juke box, and a theatre group.

We will be running a full sports programme, as well as alternative activities and events throughout each day, including one trip off the grounds. There will be a beginners’ Tai Chi class every morning except New Year’s Day. Every event will have a movie theme - for example the catered breakfast will be ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ - but this doesn’t mean you have to dress in theme for every event. We are keeping it simple with the same dress-up theme for two different events – but we don’t want to tell you too much at this stage.

As usual, we will have a shop running to sell BBQ meats, ice creams, chocolates, chippies, etc. Salads, bread and milk can be ordered for delivery the next day. We will have a bar every evening, which will sell wine, RTD’s, beer and non-alcoholic drinks.

You will appreciate the new electronic gate and sealed roading, among other improvements to our facilities. The only thing we won’t be able to book is the weather, but we will have a marquee again, in case of inclement weather.

Accommodation is limited and filling up fast so book now, although we have lots of room still for motor homes, caravans and tents. The rally fee is $150, and a discount of $10 applies if your rally fee is paid in full before 31 October.

For accommodation and registrations visit our website. Contact details featured on our advert Page 27.

Leisure Theme

In March our new presence on the gonatural website ‘went live’, and following some (deserved) bad press about Ladies Bay, our Auckland contact, Rick Dowling, had a good interview with Jeremy Wells broadcast on Hauraki Breakfast.

Recently we’ve been offered the use of a private campground in the Far North for a proposed gathering over the three day Waitangi Weekend which occurs in 2015. There may well be more surprises to come in the North; so we’d

Latest news! David Jones trading as LeisureTheme, has made formal application for affiliation to the NZNF as a Proprietary Member.

LeisureTheme is a New Zealand tour planning business established in 2000 that specialises in incorporating visitors’ special interests, including naturism, in their New Zealand holiday.

In view of his personal interest in naturism LeisureTheme is glad to provide no obligation advice to naturist enquiries received and any bookings made for accommodation at the naturist clubs in New Zealand are done on a no commission basis.

LeisureTheme’s prime market is with visitors from the UK and the Netherlands however there are no limitations on market sectors or countries that they service.

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Around & About . . .

Wellington Naturist Club

Auckland Outdoor Naturist Club

It’s been great to see so many people enjoy our club over the later part of the summer and into Autumn. Our regular Sunday afternoon teas are always popular. These are usually on the balcony in front of the hall or under some shady trees next to the pool. It’s amazing to see how many people seem to appear from nowhere at 3.00 pm on a Sunday!

Our open day in January saw many first time naturists visit our club and a few stayed for the spit roast afterwards. It was good to see a couple of new members from our open day as well as a steady stream of new members over the summer.

February saw the regular hash house harriers visit to the club where we catered for a barbeque after their run around the local area. This is always a popular event and helps showcase our grounds to a wider audience.

In March we had the Mad Hatters Tea Party and there were some amazing hat creations paraded in front of the judges. This was followed by a Kiwi Hamburgers dinner.

That weekend we also had the NZNF steering committee visit in support of our bid to host the biennial INF World

Congress in 2016. This would be a fantastic opportunity to promote naturism in New Zealand.

On the sporting front we have had our annual petanque, miniten and golf tournaments held over the summer.

Early May we are holding our Planning Day and AGM, followed by a dinner. This provides an opportunity for members to contribute to the future direction of the Wellington Naturist Club.

Malcolm Scott

Pineglades Naturist Club

Our lovely new deck.

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We had a successful Open Weekend on 18th and 19th January at the start of gonatural Week, and our usual Oranui games on the last weekend in January was also a great success. Lots of tough but friendly competition and some good social events. Andrew, Donna, Kevin and Cherie hosted a hilarious Fawlty Towers themed meal on the Saturday and Shimian kept the dance floor busy on Sunday evening with a mix of blues, rock and pop music.

ThankstoKerryandherteamforsuchawell-organisedweekendandto everyone else who participated and contributed.

We had an excellent Darts Competition organised by Andrew and Kevin at the beginning of March with lots of close matches. The tournament was won by Watership Down (seen above) in a close final against D’artagnan with The Pearl inching out the Checkout Chick for 3rd.

Later in March, Jeff was MC for our Best Accessorised Nude Competition which was decided by secret ballot from all attendees. Pictured left; Heather clearly won the Female category with Sue W edging out Colleen to take the runners-up place while Mike H won a very close Male category by one point from Andrew who was a further point ahead of Ernie in third.

The wonderful autumn weather has seen the club being well attended with many people using the spas and sauna to unwind especially after a hard day’s work.

At the time of writing we are looking forward to a full programme of social events planned by Colleen and her team starting with a busy Easter.

Jeff Norman

Outside back cover: Possum looking out over Grebe Valley from the Borland Track Right: Shelli and Steve - Nude Adventure in the Marlborough Sounds - Photo Dave Care

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