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In search of isolation
It was once the great New Zealand summer holiday - an escape to an isolated beach, where pohutakawa brushed the water and campting was the order of the day. Karl du Fresne reflects on summers gone by.Carefree summers on the Maitai
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Sally Kidson remembers golden times up the Maitai
Go West, young man
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Red rocks, arid, craggy hills and the remnants of times long past linger as my memories of childhood road trips through America's west.
Beach in the backyard
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In the first of a new summer reading series, Nelson Mail editor Bill Moore, 54, a Tahunanui boy, recalls - vaguely - some of what it was like to grow up in a place where everyone else came for holidays. He apologises for the jumbled time-line. Memory is like that.
Angling photos taken on the fly
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As any faithful Nelson Mail reader will know, Zane Mirfin likes his fish. Not just stalking and catching them, not just guiding others in pursuit of them, and not, for that matter, just writing about them in his fortnightly Mail column, Wildside (published on alternate Saturdays in the Weekend section).
Tension high as lethal log pile is cleared
Usshers make it his and hers at Coast to Coast
Victim was holding bat, says witness
Boatie seen lying hurt on beach
Lack of signs, barriers slated
Accused 'shut eyes and pulled trigger'
Doctor's views offend family of cancer boy
Bouterey's closing but game's not over
Tourism group wary of charging
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