Page 6 - Slope Point News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Hosting meat workers from Samoa is keeping the cashflow ticking over for an Owaka accommodation business during the Alert Level 4 lockdown.

Discover Taranaki’s Surf Highway 45 Keep a snowcapped Mt Taranaki on your left on a journey from New Plymouth to Hawera, and you can’t go wrong. Hopefully, the maunga’s perfect volcanic peak will be cloud-free as you negotiate Taranaki’s Surf Highway, taking time to detour down side roads to the skeletal remains of the SS Gairloch shipwreck just south of Ōakura, or the Cape Egmont Lighthouse at Pungarehu on Taranaki’s western-most point. Look forward to brisk westerlies and a winter Tasman swell rolling in all the way from Australia. Don’t miss Two of regional New Zealand’s ...

The Catlins, something of a tourist backwater in pre-covid times, is enjoying a surge in travellers as Kiwis discover (or rediscover) their own country. The Catlins is the area between Balclutha and Invercargill running along the southeast coast. It’s the alternative to the main highway running west from Balclutha to Gore and then south to Invercargill. John Bishop The Catlins are full of stunning beach views, this one is from Florence Hill. Along our way, my wife and I climbed hills, took in waterfalls, admired wetlands, searched for sea lions, stood starry-eyed at the Niagara Falls and ...

Castles and Kings 7 minutes to read Castles and Kings Civilised society is being challenged in these early days of 2021. Fortunes are being made and lost, kings are being dethroned, castles assailed. Divine providence is being invoked and accountability questioned. Plagues, famine and conflicts foment across the globe from the Americas to Africa. It is not a new narrative. In 1962, when the Cold War was on a hair-trigger, my family had started a tour of the British Isles. My father, Peter, had a brief from the Imperial Relations Trust to commentate on the history, culture, and social profile ...