what's been happening at Tiritiri Lodge

May 2008 : A wonderful trip to New York and Washington in May 2008

Steph and Denis went to the US during our break in May, whilst Tiff held the fort. The highlight was meeting up with some Tiritiri Lodge guests.

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April 2008 - Denis catches his first trout

As you may have gathered from elsewhere on the web site Denis has taken up the arcane art of fly fishing. Kindly guests and our operation manager’s patient husband have taken him on outings to varied local river or lakeside fishing spots where he has practiced his casting with limited success.

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Easter 2008 - Warbirds over Wanaka

Easter is always a special time in Wanaka and this year it was the turn of the Biennial Warbirds Over Wanaka Air Show to delight the visitors. Always a special show of vintage military planes from WW1 to today’s supersonic heroes the format delights both the historical experts and rank amateurs alike with its mock battles featuring the Red Baron's Fokker Tri plane lining up against his old foes, through WW2 Spitfires, Hurricanes, Corsairs, right up to a spectacular display by the RAAF F1 11.

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March 12 2008- Our first winemaker’s dinner featuring Jo Mills from Rippon

Rippon vineyard on the shores of Lake Wanaka was featured in our first ever winemaker’s dinner at the Lodge. Our guests were 2 couples from the US who are great wine buffs.

Pre dinner drink on the terrace overlooking the lake and mountains were a lovely refreshing Osteiner (a variety in its own right, a Riesling/Sylvaner hybrid) matched with smoked salmon blinis.

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17 July -curling in a an amazing hoar frost

We drove from the Lodge through the Maniototo covered in amazing hoar frost - a magnificent white wonderland to Naseby.

At Naseby is New Zealand's highest indoor and outdoor curling rink. We had a great fun learning to curl. The younger members of the extended family aged 9 and 11 could play equally as well as the adults, so we divided into 2 teams and learnt this arcane Scottish sport of hurling 20kg polished granite stones on the ice.

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