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• Hunting Fails, 12:38 Apr 28, 2010

  Yes, thanks Russell.

  I'm generally not a fan of the first in first served type giveway system as they always seem to be posted in those few minutes when we are all off doing something non computer related, so i thought here's a good way to flick someone some tickets and maybe start a dialogue about some of the more obscure and fascinating parts of our history.

  If you are out of Auckland and have some input fear not, the show's traveling round the country, and has 2 weeks in Wellington mid year, so i can always reward you with tickets to another venue.

  Of course you might win them from afar and have someone to pass them onto in Auckland.

  So, anecdotes ahoy:

  Perhaps my favourite one currently not in the show is the story of Douglas Cook, founder of the Eastwoodhill Arboretum, at Ngatapa, near Gisbourne, who apparently planted many of the trees there wearing nothing but a single gumboot. Why? Well it seems he was something of a naturist, and wore the gumboot simply to help him dig into the hard soil.

  the result? one of the great (largely) unsung treasures of our landscape, and the largest and most comprehensive collection of Northern Hemisphere trees south of the equator.

  Well worth a jaunt into the countryside, especially about now, as the leaves of the tress run the full palette of their autumnal spectrum.

  It's a fascinating place with a colourful history.

  Check it out:

  www.eastwoodhill.org.nz

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