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Now, it was on to New Zealand! As I sat on the plane scratching my 23,890 mosquito bites from the buffalo hunt, I wondered how the weather would be, with this being the dead of winter in the southern hemisphere. I arrived in Christchurch on the South Island, and the lodge owner John Gemmell picked me up the next day for the 80 mile drive to Hanmer Springs, a beautiful mountain village north of Christchurch. The scenery was breathtaking, with majestic snow-covered peaks reminiscent of my home state of Montana.
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