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The Waitaki Lakes camping season comes to a close this Sunday.
The Waitaki District Council’s six camping sites battled through major flooding events, no international tourists, and restricted numbers at some sites during the 2020/21 season.
Season tickets for Falstone Creek, Sailors Cutting and Boat Harbour had sold out by November, and casual camping was not allowed at those grounds from December 20 to January 10. It made things “a wee bit slow” through the Christmas period, with fewer visitors, Mr Fox said.
“While it appeared busy at some spots . . . on the whole, I think it was not as busy as what it normally was because people were restricted,” he said.
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Waitaki lakes campers Corina Bond, left, with husband Russell and daughter Renee. Corina and Russell met as teenagers when they were camping at Parsons Rock.
A place to get away from it all can also be a place where romance blossoms as Stuff reporter Al Williams discovered when he delved into holiday camping lifestyles at the popular Waitaki
lakes in the South Island. Corina Bond was 17 when she met her future husband, Russell, while camping at Parsons Rock on the shores of Lake Aviemore. “I started going to that camping spot when I was 12,’’ she said. “Russell and I lived in different towns, we started going out together the year we met and it has never stopped.