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    POUTU LIGHTHOUSE weekend

    Jul 25, 2021 5 minutes
    Story and photos by Richard Soult.

    The main reason for my recent ‘road’ trip (back) to the North Island was to attend Fieldays at Mystery Creek. I was kindly invited to stay in Auckland with a couple of my regular guiding guests, Garth and Michelle Wood, and we all headed down to the show together.

    I also knew that my great friend Jono Hitchcox of Lost Sheep Adventures was in Auckland and that he had planned a weekend to Poutu with Brian Norris, formerly of Rugged Life tents, a couple of weeks earlier, but had to cancel due to bad weather.

    Several months ago, I was in Reefton getting some work done on the truck by Tash from Reefton Motors and had bumped into two young Auckland cousins,

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