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Burt Munro Challenge – Hill Climb
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The Beauty of Otepuni Gardens.
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Santa Parade in Invercargill
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Morning Sun Over Bluff
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Fabulous frost
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What a season! Zerofees Southland Sharks.
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Beautiful Bluff in images
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St. Mary’s Basilica, Invercargill
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Giving a new tradition
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Disconnect to reconnect
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Club Show for great and small
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Southern Pro Wrestling takes hold in Invercargill
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Still time to enter!
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Upcycle Awards and Fashion Show
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Upcycle Southland entries open now!
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Upcycle Awards & Fashion Show 2016
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More creativity please!
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Heritage Week – Coming in March 2016
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Arts Market Invercargill
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Burt Munro’s Bluff Hill
Down to Omaui Beach
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Sign of the times? I hope not
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Bomb Away
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Ode To New Zealand
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Fit For A Queen
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Swinton Street, Invercargill
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Gore – more than trouts & guitars
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In The Garden – Potatoes & Prickles
Photo by M. Franscis/NIWA
Little Jaws
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Bluff – July 11, 2014, 1730hrs
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Close Game – Southland Stags
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Crossfit Gore Gauntlet
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Want to become a Teacher?
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Hear The Roar
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In The Garden – July, Part 2
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In The Garden – July, Part 1
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Southland Sharks in the Community
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Inside the Shark Cage with Morgan Natanahira – Part II
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Andre comes to town.
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Inside the Shark Cage with Morgan Natanahira – Part I
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FAN-tastic Sharks
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Haunui Waka in Bluff
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The Festival That Never Was
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Brighter Shade of Orange
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Not So Anonymous
KIT Day with the Southland Sharks
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Burt Munro Challenge – Hill Climb

The Burt Munro Challenge got under way this morning on Bluff Hill with the Classic Motorcycle Mecca NZ Hill Climb 

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The Beauty of Otepuni Gardens.

Otepuni Gardens in Invercargill was traditionally the city’s main park, it came complete with aviaries, display houses and a nursery.  

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Santa Parade in Invercargill

With Christmas just around the corner, as in we can actually SEE it – we thought it would be a 

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Morning Sun Over Bluff

There are some very beautiful things in this world and one of them has to be witnessing a glorious sunrise.  

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Fabulous frost

It’s been a little cold recently here in the deep South, but with cold does come beauty – if one 

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What a season! Zerofees Southland Sharks.

Placed 2nd on the NZNBL leaders ladder, our very own Zerofees Southland Sharks have won 10 of their games, their 

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Beautiful Bluff in images

The scenery in Southland is just one of its many perks so we thought on Easter Weekend we’d start celebrating 

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St. Mary’s Basilica, Invercargill

I love strolling around our Southland towns, there is always something new to discover, even when you’ve been living here 

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Giving a new tradition

With the festive season just around the corner it seems the mad dash is on to secure that perfect gift.  

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Disconnect to reconnect

At a time where it is increasingly easy to be connected to the world around us, yet be so incredibly 

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Club Show for great and small

On a sunny Sunday morning I was at Makarewa, 11 km north of Invercargill.   Historically, Makarewa was a junction of 

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Southern Pro Wrestling takes hold in Invercargill

Southern Pro Wrestling has just had their fourth show in Invercargill with their Halloween Haunting on October 15th, 2016, since 

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Still time to enter!

The Southland Upcycle Awards and Fashion show is nearly here but there is still time to enter.  Tickets are also 

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Upcycle Awards and Fashion Show

Don’t forget that entries are now open, you can either pick up an entry form at Orphan Aid in Invercargill 

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Upcycle Southland entries open now!

Now is a good time to start seriously shopping for those outfits for the Upcycle Awards and Fashion show to 

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Upcycle Awards & Fashion Show 2016

We’ve long said the Southland is full of creative and artistic minds.  Yes we may be butchers, receptionists or dairy 

Invercargill4664
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More creativity please!

I would say it all started back in March but that isn’t quite true.  Truth is it’s always been there, 

1954 reception for royal couple
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Heritage Week – Coming in March 2016

Heritage week is coming up in March and in keeping with that theme we at Iluvsouthland have been posting the 

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Arts Market Invercargill

Southland is renowned for being a hub of artists of all genre and how could it not be?  Relaxed way 

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Burt Munro’s Bluff Hill

Time has flown by, it’s been 10 years since the Burt Munro Challenge Rally was first celebrated in Southland.  A 

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Down to Omaui Beach

  “Right O little people, get in the car” is a statement that is heard often around our house.  Willingly 

Queenstown6340
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Sign of the times? I hope not

It’s not often we at Iluvinvers have a grumble about something, and although this may start off with a distinct 

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Bomb Away

There is nothing more uplifting on a gloomy wet winters day than a splash of colour.  Actually, it doesn’t have 

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Ode To New Zealand

  Ode To New Zealand (By Monica Toretto) New Zealand, known as the land of the long white cloud, You 

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Fit For A Queen

Although I’ve lived in Southland and Invercargill now for just over eight years, I have not yet seen everything there is to 

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Swinton Street, Invercargill

Swinton Street is located in Gladstone and is 0.32km long.  Swinton Street was named after a village, north of Coldstream, 

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Gore – more than trouts & guitars

Gore is more than just a town you pass when you’re on State Highway 1 heading as far South as you 

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In The Garden – Potatoes & Prickles

  This week ‘In The Garden’:  Potatoes and prickles. While cooking chickpeas I reached into my bag of potatoes only to 

Photo by M. Franscis/NIWA
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Little Jaws

Having a shark-enthusiast in the family doesn’t only make everyone in the family a ‘shark lover’ but it also makes 

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Bluff – July 11, 2014, 1730hrs

Bluff, Southland July 11, 2014 1730hrs Southport Tiwai Point Challenge Service Station. Gore Street. Foreshore Road. 

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Close Game – Southland Stags

With a history dating back to it’s foundation in 1887,  Southland is a proud and passionate rugby province.  Southland is 

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Crossfit Gore Gauntlet

151km south of Dunedin is the town of Gore.  Nestled in the heart of Southland, surrounded by the greenery of 

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Want to become a Teacher?

Leaving school or changing direction? Want to study teaching locally? The University of Otago College of Education, Southland Campus, Ahuahu 

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Hear The Roar

I went on an adventure one Friday night and that’s saying a lot coming from me who leads a relatively 

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In The Garden – July, Part 2

  This week ‘In the Garden’ : Last week was busy with replanting the little native trees & shrubs seedlings in the 

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In The Garden – July, Part 1

Well it’s been a while since I have spent this much luxurious time head down and bottom up in my 

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Southland Sharks in the Community

The bouncing of basketball has a very distinct sound and once you know it, it’s unmistakable.  I heard it before 

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Inside the Shark Cage with Morgan Natanahira – Part II

It’s easy to assume the life of a sports person is one of all the luxuries portrayed in the flashy 

NZ-Sealion5312
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Andre comes to town.

He’s been known to stop traffic and his presence could on occasion require a police escort.  He attracts attention, he is 

Coverphoto8621
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Inside the Shark Cage with Morgan Natanahira – Part I

Most of us don’t think too deeply into what goes into a sporting event, the behind the scenes organization, the 

Southland-Sharks6026
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FAN-tastic Sharks

I can be anywhere at any time and hear “Moooonica!!  OMG !!!” followed by the source of the jubilant squeal 

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Haunui Waka in Bluff

There was a buzz in the air as there had been all weekend and no one knew the exact time 

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The Festival That Never Was

Well that was exciting!  My first ever Bluff Oyster & Food Festival and it’s definitely one to remember and not 

Southland-Sharks2932
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Brighter Shade of Orange

Friday night is normally the beginning of the weekend, the end of a long working week, a time to let 

TPPA2497
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Not So Anonymous

The autumn colours have returned to Invercargill and Wachner Place looked rather pretty with the colour changing leaves just barely 

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KIT Day with the Southland Sharks

Fun with Sharks “Oh, you are going to be playing basketball today” I mentioned Wednesday morning to my youngest son.  

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