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=Places of the Heartland - Glendu bay = Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000167 EndHTML:0000007063 StartFragment:0000000454 EndFragment:0000007047 ABOUT ME

My name is Georgia Margaret Power.

I have been to four different schools but have only moved twice. I love to play sports and socialise with my friends and spend time with my family. I have extremely blonde hair, blue eyes, and my face is covered in freckles. I live near Millers Flat which is near Roxburgh. I live on a farm. I have a family made up of five people. First there is Mum she has blondish brownish hair she has blue eyes and a few freckles she is a really nice happy person and she can always make me feel better when I feel sad. Mum loves to help me with my sports and enjoys helping me improve. Mum loves family holidays and when we all get to do things together. She loves working in the garden and always does an amazing job when she is done. Then there is Dad, he doesn't have much hair left but I like it like that. He has blue eyes and no freckles. He works really hard on the farm and he is really good at helping me with my homework. Dad loves chocolate, Jimmy's Pies, and big mutton roasts, he also gets very excited when we are on holiday and we have a breakfast off the BBQ. He loves to play with me and he is really fun and understanding. I have a sister and her name is Anna. Anna and I are really close we will always go out to play games and she is really nice to have around. I talk to her about pretty much about everything and she always tells me what is happening with her, and we understand each other and each others problems and I couldn't ask for a better sister. I also have a little brother called Henry. He is seven years old and is really cute, he and Anna fight all the time about the stupidest things, but I think that he is awesome. He really likes his motorbikes and tractors, and he is really good at his rugby for a little boy. Henry is really cool and fun, I love him.

We also have lots of pets, we have four farm dogs called Bloke, Mac, Queen, and Ralph, we have one fat house dog called Puku. Puku loves getting a attention and loves to get rubbed on her tummy. We did have two pet cats called Wilbur and Tiggy but when we moved Tiggy ran away the people at the old house have seen him so we still hope to get him back. We just got another cat called Midgee she is really cute and naughty. Wilbur just got run over which was really sad, So we got George who is a fat ginger cat who loves to waddle around the house and be the centre of attention, I don't think that Wilbur would have approved of George because Midgee doesn't. Wilbur was a small, long, sleek, black, cat who thinks that he is the king of the house.Wilbur was rather cruel to the native animals that live around our house, he will catch something and sit and around and play with them for ages! Every night he selects one of someones beds to sleep on but if someone gets up to get a drink or something Wilbur is right beside them chasing them up the hallway, meowing because he is suddenly hungry. After that he will then choose yet a different bed for a change and wakes that person up while trying to find the comfiest part of the bed which on cold nights is usually at your head! I remember one time when he bought a big fat quail into the house because I think Wilbur had been trying to get the babies so the Dad quail had distracted him and Wilbur caught him! When Wilbur came into the house he looked very proud of himself until I took the quail back out side and hid it from him. Tiggy on the other hand was a very blonde cat. One time he got stuck in our tennis court which was stupid because our tennis court only had three of the walls up and so he was waddling up and down the tennis court meowing with one of the sides wide open and he didn't even look up. Another time he was inside and he had this rubber band in his mouth he put a foot in and stretched the rubber band upwards and he flicked it into the middle of his face, he ran away and then came back and did it again! And another time (probably one of his blondest moments) he managed to climb up on top of the roof and Anna went outside and called him he looked around to Anna, and kept walking at the same time and he fell off the end of the roof! Poor Tiggy! We have sheep, cows, and deer. And we also have two baby deer called Bambi and Borris.

In the weekends I like to go down to Perkins Pond to go water skiing and biscuiting there, the water is usually really warm so you don't get as cold as you would do in lake Wanaka. Every year my family and I go to Glendu Bay which is just out of Wanaka to go camping. Two other familys go with us so there are lots of boats.

Well I have told you a little bit about me and I hope you enjoyed it.

<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,sans-serif;">By Georgia Power.

= = =media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Glendhu+Bay,+Otago,+New+Zealand&sll=-40.979898,174.902344&sspn=15.617562,39.506836&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FVNXVv0dfewSCg&split=0&hq=&hnear=Glendhu+Bay,+Otago,+New+Zealand&ll=-44.673197,169.012349&spn=15.625317,39.506836&z=5&output=embed" width="425" height="350"= = = Glendu-Bay is my favorite place because, I get to spend time with my family and close friends, I get to go water skiing and biscuiting and I love camping. My Mum and Dad get to relax more and all the kids have heaps of fun! There is never a boring day and you would be crazy not to enjoy it! = = == =//**This is at Glendu-Bay on the lake. I choose this photo because it shows the climate around Glendu-Bay**//. //The climate looks dry and definitely warm.// //**I also choose this photo because we are all water skiing and that is one of my favorite things to do there. It also shows how clear the water is, and how nice and warm it can get there.**//= = = = = ==

=The first European in the area was Nathaniel Chalmers, who was guided in land by Chief Reko in 1853. Maori knowledge of the region is evidenced by an earlier sketch map by Chief Tehuruhuru at Waimate. European settlement began in the Upper Clutha Valleys in the 1850's with the establishment of sheep stations by 'runholders'. The first station was in Albert town as this was the only way to ford the Clutha River. The present sight of Wanaka was first surveyed in 1863. Settlement increased in Pembrooke (the old name for Wanaka) in the 1870's because of timber milling in the Matukituki Valley and the use of Lake Wanaka for transport. Tourism started in the town in 1867 with the opening of the first hotel, by Theodore Russell. The site proved very popular for tourism because of its temperature climate and easy access to snow and water. Pembrooke was renamed Wanaka in 1940.=

media type="custom" key="5531105" Glendu Bay Glendu Bay is a camping ground ten minutes out of Wanaka with a big lake and lots of bays. It is a great family holiday with the skiing, biscuiting, and the warm summer days. I spend most of my time in the water and if you ever go there I would strongly recommend sunblock! At Glendu Bay is best to go skiing in the morning as its the most flat then and save the biscuiting for the after noon. The lake is usually quite cold because it is glacier fed but I think that it is perfect for any type of water sport. The lake is the natural feature of Glendu Bay and the camping ground is the cultural. Glendu Bay is part of Lake Wanaka. Lake Wanaka has an altitude of 300m covering an area of 192km. It is New Zealands forth largest lake, and is estimated to be 300m deep. Lake Wanaka lies in a U shaped valley formed by glacial erosion during the last ice age 10,000 years ago. It is fed by the Matukituki and Makaroa rivers and is the source of the Clutha river. The climate of the lake is temperate with daily averages of 26.1 degrees celcius in January and 10.1 degrees celcius in July. Glendu Bay is my favourite place in the world.