Posted 1st February 2014 to the Otago Daily Times
I have to say I just read Doreen McKenzie's History of the Kinloch Glenorchy Area in the farthest Corner of Otago. That it seems somewhat odd that
so much Film and TV footage has been shot there but nobody has bothered telling the colourful story of the century before the first Movie Cameras arrived
It was Nice of Jane Campion to make a TV series based on a somewhat dark and Twisted remote settlement which is also the home of Mainland Cheese adverts, Water Horses, Wolverines, Himalayas and Hobbits but there was world of drama and tragedy as people struggled in real Isolation for a hundred years before the road was pushed threw in 1962 particularly the Bryant Family of Kinloch who where the Hosts of the Routeburn Track until 1971 when the Dart River was bridged and the Modern World consigned them to the History books with the help of the Aspiring National Parks Board. Reduced to a Brass plaque where their “Glacier Hotel” Still Stands today as a B&B.
I have to say I just read Doreen McKenzie's History of the Kinloch Glenorchy Area in the farthest Corner of Otago. That it seems somewhat odd that
so much Film and TV footage has been shot there but nobody has bothered telling the colourful story of the century before the first Movie Cameras arrived
It was Nice of Jane Campion to make a TV series based on a somewhat dark and Twisted remote settlement which is also the home of Mainland Cheese adverts, Water Horses, Wolverines, Himalayas and Hobbits but there was world of drama and tragedy as people struggled in real Isolation for a hundred years before the road was pushed threw in 1962 particularly the Bryant Family of Kinloch who where the Hosts of the Routeburn Track until 1971 when the Dart River was bridged and the Modern World consigned them to the History books with the help of the Aspiring National Parks Board. Reduced to a Brass plaque where their “Glacier Hotel” Still Stands today as a B&B.
The Whole Top of the Lake are should be a a living Musuem !
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