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COLUMNS<br />
Quality is not going to affect Tuesday’s ODT<br />
BY CALLUM FREDRIC<br />
The Ross Creek Reservoir<br />
By Phoebe Harrop<br />
On Tuesday, the day before the Dunedin cricket test was due to<br />
start, the ODT decided to tempt fate.<br />
Rain washed out the entire first day of the test. As this <strong>co</strong>lumn went to<br />
print on Wednesday night, the exact magnitude of the ODT’s fuckup was<br />
yet to be determined.<br />
And now, two angry old people massively overreacting to things.<br />
Apparently King’s High School’s “gentleman training class” (as <strong>co</strong>vered in<br />
last week’s Critic) wasn’t enough to teach the little punks some empathy.<br />
Now, Dunedin children as young as thirteen will be starved, forced into arranged<br />
marriages, and have their parents poisoned to death. Until they learn.<br />
The heady exploits of O-Week<br />
are now a hazy memory, lectures<br />
aren’t preliminary any<br />
more, and the icy charms of a Dunedin<br />
autumn have well and truly arrived<br />
here in the student ghetto. You may<br />
think it’s time to curl up in a ball, survive<br />
exclusively on mi goreng and milo,<br />
and await the release of Game of Thrones Season Three.<br />
WRONG! Now is the best time to get out of the ghetto<br />
and see some more of Dunedin’s charming surrounds,<br />
whatever the weather. It might even be time to work off<br />
some of the O-Week al<strong>co</strong>hol calories, particularly if you<br />
are also living in a hall and are thus facing the devilish<br />
temptation of the all-you-can-eat-all-the-time toast/<br />
dessert/cho<strong>co</strong>late milk <strong>co</strong>mbo.<br />
Undoubtedly North Dunedin’s fave spot for those who love to go bush<br />
(in the tramping sense, obv) is the Ross Creek reservoir. Venture uphill beyond<br />
the Woodhaugh Dairy along Malvern Street and onto a well-marked path<br />
that winds through simply splendid native bush. After a quad-warming<br />
climb and a minimally exciting bridge crossing, you’ll reach the reservoir.<br />
Until last year this man-made lake was brimming with water and<br />
occasionally prone to dramatic overflows down into the Leith River.<br />
However, the reservoir no longer actually acts as a source of municipal<br />
drinking water, and has been left to the local duck population: more reeds,<br />
a lower water levels and a higher likelihood of <strong>co</strong>ntracting “duck itch”<br />
after swimming are the net result.<br />
As you get more adventurous and willing to stray beyond the reservoir-side<br />
track, you might dis<strong>co</strong>ver 1) the waterfall; 2) a rocky cairn;<br />
3) the steeper-than-prices-at-The-Campus-Shop Pineapple Track; and<br />
4) the back of the Balmacewen golf <strong>co</strong>urse which leads out to suburban<br />
Maori Hill. Will the fun ever stop?! Enjoy.<br />
Finally, we’ve long since given up on exposing individual terrible puns in<br />
the ODT. It’s just too easy. But starting and ending an article with a cringe<br />
earns Adrian Se<strong>co</strong>ni a spot in this week’s <strong>co</strong>lumn:<br />
Get there: walk from Malvern St (bottom entrance) or Cannington Rd<br />
(top entrance).<br />
Do: pop those sneakers on.<br />
Don’t: swim, unless you’re after some casual cercarial dermatitis to spice<br />
up that Student Health <strong>co</strong>nsult.<br />
Eat: a takeaway picnic from Woodhaugh Dairy (cnr George and Malvern)<br />
or Delicacy Café (Highgate, Maori Hill).<br />
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