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Field trips Wednesday 7th July
Half Day Tours
MacMillan Ceramics – Hands-On Pottery  Visit MacMillan Ceramics and Alchemy Art Caf�. Learn about the chemistry of glazes, clay, physics of throwing, computerized techniques for throwing pots. Hands-on opportunity to decorate your own premade pot, or throw your own, decorate and glaze. Materials included in the trip cost, extra charge for freighting (if required). Depart: 2.15pm Return: 5.00pm Cost: $25 Brook Waimarama Sanctuary  The Brook Waimarama Sanctuary is a community-based initiative working to create a pest-free wildlife sanctuary close to Nelson. It applies a model first developed at Karori Sanctuary in Wellington. Enclosing an area with a pest-proof fence and eradicating all the pest mammals within it, allows the re-creation of a New Zealand which today is only found on a few offshore islands. Resident birds, reptiles and invertebrates will flourish and species previously lost from the area can be re-introduced. The project was launched in 2004 and is gaining strong support. Depart: 2.15pm Return: 5.30pm Cost: $25 Walk Where Rutherford Walked  With Dr John Campbell (University of Canterbury – Physics, author of ‘Rutherford Scientist Supreme’ and ‘Rutherford's Ancestors’) as guide and commentator, travel to three local locations where Rutherford lived in his early years, including the Brightwater memorial (his birthplace), Foxhill (the intriguing ‘cowstail’ story) and Nelson College. Share the opportunity to discuss the significance of Rutherford’s Nelson background on the development of his ideas. Depart: 2.15pm Return: 5.30pm Cost: $25 Cawthron Institute  Visit the world renowned Cawthron Institute, New Zealand's largest, independent, community-owned research centre, with over 180 scientific and technical staff based in Nelson and Marlborough. In the comfort of the Milton Room you will have the opportunity to hear from key researchers, view presentations and discuss their work with them. Depart: 2.15pm Nelson College for Girls Return: 5.00pm Nelson College for Girls Cost: $25 Cawthron Observatory. (Evening trip)  * Learn about the history and workings of the 1878 Atkinson telescope. * Hear about the story of the building of the new Observatory, completed in 2009. * Observe the heavens through the telescope with the guidance of a local expert astronomer Arthur Wilson. Depart: 7.30pm Return: 9.30pm Cost: $25 Thursday
8th July
Full Day Tours
 Salmon, Good Food & Wine.A tour of up to four selected locations involved in the Nelson food and wine industry, beginning with a visit to New Zealand King Salmon, a vertically integrated salmon farming, processing and marketing company. NZ King Salmon is in the top 50 producers of farmed salmon in the world, harvesting approximately 7300mt (metric tonne) per annum.  From
there you will visit another food processing location (details to
come), followed by a delightful conclusion tasting wine at one or more
of Nelson’s
excellent wineries. We hope
for one of them to provide an opportunity for a laboratory visit with insight into winemaking processes. Depart: 9.00am Return: 4.30pm Cost: $50 includes Lunch. Nelson Geological Tour Nelson has some of the most varied and interesting geology in New Zealand. The field trip will include stops at Princess Drive Lookout for a geological overview, Tahunanui Beach active coastal processes, Tahunanui Slump a large urban landslide, Magazine Point sedimentary strata and a launch trip to the Boulder Bank, a young boulder spit barrier formed by erision of granodiorite rocks and deposition by longshore drift. Depart: 9.00am Return: 4.30pm Cost: $50 includes Lunch. Maud Island Scientific Reserve  Maud Island / Te Hoiere is a relatively sheltered island in outer Pelorus Sound in the Marlborough Sounds. It is a scientific reserve and serves as a predator-free island sanctuary for native species. Some of these species are unique to the island and some are rare and in danger of extinction in mainland areas where non-native pests threaten their survival. It is the second-largest island reserve in the Marlborough Sounds. A very special place with some special residents, including the colourfully plumed flightless takahe freely roaming, giant Cook Strait Weta lurking in dark corners, intricately-patterned Geckos and Skinks slinking about in the undergrowth, and the island has its own species of frog, the Pakeka or Maud Island frog. The weather is very unpredictable in the Sounds and can change very quickly with out warning. Delegates are strongly advised to bring warm clothing and wet weather gear, including gum boots or waterproof walking shoes/boots. Depart: 7.30am Return: 5.30pm Cost: $120 includes lunch |
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