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The information about access to the Waitohu Valley is out of date. Access through the quarry is no longer available. The named farmers are no longer there, and that property is owned by the quarry. There is an unformed legal road (ULR) nearby - see wams.org.nz. I am currently working with DOC, KCDC, 3 landowners and a leaseholder to get a route that approximates the ULR marked and signposted.
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"Our cooking utensils consisted of two billy cans and a frying pan.
Our baking was done on the ground, a hollow was made and over it a scrub fire was kindled, the ashes raked back, the dough was then placed in it and covered over with the hot ashes to bake - the result called damper was not very sightly, but it passed for good bread when there was nothing better.
A baking of damper would sometimes last three weeks, so that in such a case, one's digestion was not impaired by eating newly baked bread."
James McKerrow, Pioneer explorer-surveyor of Otago.
[This reminds me, Merv, of the tale from Hector's trip up the Matukituki, where they had prepared sun-dried jerky from sheep they had driven many miles, then killed and smoked. "And it was remarkable how little of it sufficed to satisfy a man!"]
