Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh is undertaking the 12-week Revive programme at Alpine Health and Fitness. In her series of diary entries, she documents the highs, lows, aches and pains associated with getting into shape.
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Even the weather played its part.
The New Zealand Army Band entertains the crowd at Arrowtown's 150th anniversary celebrations.
From the moment "Jack Tewa" meandered along the Arrow River before jumping for joy at finding gold and sprinting off into the distance, the crowd at Arrowtown's 150th anniversary celebrations was captivated by the re-enactment, played out by more than 120 residents, including the Buckingham Belles, the Arrow Miners Band, horses, carts and wagons.
Two foreign climbers who "got into a little bit of bother" in Fiordland on Monday night were plucked from an area known as the Cul de Sac, near Mt Crosscut, yesterday morning .
A party the pioneers would have been proud of rounded out evening entertainment for the Arrowtown 150th celebrations on Sunday 21 at the Athenaeum Hall.
Two of the entrants in yesterday's 2012 New Zealand Gold Panning Championships, on Butler's Green, were not strangers to the competition, having taken part for the past 20 years.
We've been pretty busy this weekend - and it's been fantastic.
Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh is undertaking the 12-week Revive programme at Alpine Health and Fitness. In her series of diary entries she documents the highs, lows, aches and pains associated with getting into shape.
For Peter Robson, of Winton, his replica 1820 stagecoach was a labour of love, having been built from scratch using Southland beech as a "spare-time thing".
The celebrations have begun.
The Arrow River bed will provide the stage and the mountains the backdrop as more than 120 people, horses and wagons transport the watching public to 1862, re-enacting the discovery of gold which heralded the beginning of the gold rush.
Heavy overnight rain has forced a change in location for the Town Meets Country day, part of the Arrowtown 150 celebrations.
The photograph, shot by ODT illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery on October 7, along with the details of 762 residents - and four dogs - will be buried in the Arrowtown 150 time capsule on Monday afternoon.
It was hard not to get emotional. As TSS (twin screw steamship) Earnslaw steamed into Queenstown Bay at 1.45pm yesterday, led by Coastguard Queenstown and followed by a flotilla of 20 boats, all 356 passengers on board knew they were part of something special.
It's taken three years of hard slog, but tomorrow the Queenstown Trail, covering more than 110km of the Wakatipu, will be officially opened.
Arrowtown's Athenaeum Hall will undergo a massive makeover in 24 hours this weekend to transform it from the glitzy venue needed for The Gold Ball to a rustic hall more suited to the Buckingham Belles Miners' Night.
A weather front possibly bringing snow could disrupt plans to reopen one lane of the Milford road by tomorrow, New Zealand Transport Agency Southland area manager Peter Robinson said.
Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh is quarter of the way through the 12-week Revive programme at Alpine Health and Fitness. In her series of diary entries she documents the highs, lows, aches and pains associated with getting into shape.
