Safari Lodge has been abuzz with a family wedding in January!
Ray and I have done the unthinkable closed the Lodge for almost 3 weeks during Peak Season for our Son’s wedding on the 26th January and to made matters more interesting we rode our Harley Davidson up to Auckland leaving on the Monday after the wedding to attend a 2nd wedding party on the 2nd of February.
We don’t get many opportunities to tour on the motorbike these days so we took advantage of a perfect opportunity. The wedding day was a bit of a blur for me as we ended up doing most of the organizing as the bride and groom live in Melbourne. They had their ceremony on our front lawn with 150 guests attending. Ray’s 8 car garage was converted into a reception hall for the day and I organized the catering at the Lodge. Everyone had a great day Wedding started at 3.pm – evening ending at 4.45am !
Trish & Ray
Safari Lodge
51 Herbert Street, Invercargill.
[email protected]
64 3 214 6329
0800 885 557
Alas… we woke to the pristine snow capped mountain vista of Kaikoura. It was absolutely idyllic. We drove our Russian guests to the water tank lookout to view the region at its best. It
was absolutely breathtaking. Blue skies and not a breath of wind…the sea with hardly a ripple.
Our guests helicopter was soon to arrive to take them to the Huka Lodge in Taupo for 2 days and some more rain and for us to return to our mundane task of moving furniture to continue with our redecorating.
A welcome breather comes every four hours with a few moments with our new arrival “Sooty” a jet black lamb to which we are “Mum”. I am always amazed at how knowing they get !!
We get bunted everywhere hoping his milk will just appear !!
Spring is not so far away…the tulips are up..and we all hope to start picking up a few guests.
Kaikoura’s Whale run kicks off on the 15 September then we all look forward to the annual “Seafest” which attract about 8,000 visitors to the region for the festival. A superb variety of wines and seafood is to be had not to mention a good selection of live entertainment. A reprieve from the empty accommodations of the winter months.
The men’s open Golf Day followed by the Kaikoura Trotting Cup all are great fun days
which are growing annually with guests coming from all over the South Island…and usually Kaikoura can turn on the weather…and crayfish…
www.fyffecountrylodge.com
Chris Rye and Colin Ashworth
Fyffe Country lodge
458 State Highway One
Kaikoura.
After almost seventeen years here, these last couple of weeks have been the wettest wintry fortnight I can remember….. even the local golf club is closed!
Fortunately the feminine side of the family – my wife Margherita and our daughter Fiamma – are presently in Italy complaining about the 39-40 degrees of heat……….. nobody is ever happy!
The bad weather has also been affecting and postponing all those yearly winter tasks that maintaining our premises implies, without even giving me a chance to have some fun golfing or fishing.
Our 60 Kgs Great Dane puppy Romeo and the two new kittens make up for that and supply me with plenty of company and entertainment due to their lovely nature.
A major event will take place here in Whitianga on the weekend of the 15th-16th of September: the Scallop Festival, a nationwide well-known cuisine and music fiesta that every year attracts thousands of people from all over New Zealand. www.scallopfestival.co.nz
Villa Toscana – Giorgio & Margherita