January 24, 2025 • 8 mins
Over the summer break Mike Yardley took advantage of the gorgeous weather to take a trip to the South Island’s Tasman Bay.
He joined Jack Tame for a chat about his family holiday in the south, visiting sun-drenched spots like Kaiteriteri, Motueka, Mapua, and hitting the pedals on the Great Taste Trail.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks at.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
B our Travel correspondent Mike Yardley is with us all
this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hey Mike, good morning Jack. Very nice to talk and
I thought we would kick off with a powder of
New Zealand you are intimately familiar with, given half of
the country's holidaying there at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yes, there's true. Half the country is holidaying there at
the moment. I was fortunate enough to be holidaying there
with my family as well, which is always a pleasure.
We're talking about free roaming Tasman Bay, which is the
top of the South Island. So for anyone who's not
familiar with the geography here, if you divide the top
of the South into three parts, you've got Golden Bay
on the west side, You've got Tasman Bay in the middle,
(00:49):
and then you've got the Marlboro Sounds on the right
hand side. That's or of the easterly side way I
think about it day. So let's begin in Motorweka, which
is a sort of powerhouse of produce these days.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
As sure as Jack as a cat. That was funny.
I was feeling very nostalgic when I was there last week.
I remember when I was a child, the landscape was
just tobacco, that was the staple crop. And of course
today that landscape it's kind of like a library of
the Yates Garden Guide. You've got hops, You've got apple trees, vineyards,
the full spectrum of stone fruit that you obviously have
(01:25):
been eating your well jenner. You've got berry's galore. You
can just eat yourself forever in the Motaweka area. And
then there's the ocean delights. I have never come across
this before, and I'm intrigued to know if you are
aware of this. In Motaweka, if you go down to
the port, which is dominated by Telly's because it's the
(01:48):
home base of Telly's, the Telly's Factory shop, y oh
my goodness. They this justifies a holiday to Mataweka in
its own right, because if you go to the Telly's
Factory shop, you get the rashist blue cod from that
(02:09):
job and you cock it up in your motel and
I'd have to say it would be the best tasting
bluecot I have devowed in a long time. And it's
so much stupor than what you would normally get.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It for Yeah, of course, Oh, how amazing. That's a
great that's a great tip. And like you say, I
mean it's sort of an embarrassment of riches when it
comes to that. Yeah, you know, like all of the
different kind of farm gate stalls and stuff just selling
fresh berries and being a fresh produce. Yeah, and there's.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Still so many there's so many honesty boxes store op
racing that part of New Zealand, which I just love.
There is an innocence to the place.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, No, you're totally right. Hey is Noel Edmond's river
Haven with a visit.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's really interesting. That's quite a quirky enterprise, gorgeous setting
in the motorwork of valley village of Natty Malty. But
as I'm sure people are aware, the former UK TV
star has caught him quite a bit of controversy in
recent years. He seemed to get very much in cahoots
with the anti X crowd during COVID and he bought
(03:09):
the property about five years ago, so it was previously
known as Dunbar Estates. Today his farm turns out river
Haven Peno Green, really good wine. But there's the cafe,
there's a restaurant and the pub all adjacent to the vineyard,
which you can stroll through. He's got a massive classic
car collection which is on public display. He loves his
(03:31):
old jags. But I reckon the big charmer is the
pub the bugger in It's like it's been keeleyported from
a sleepy English village. And the word is ITV has
done a deal with NOL to do a reality TV
show this year from River. Haven't a Clarkton farm. It's
(03:52):
going to be an old farm. No word Jack on
whether mister Blobby gets a looking.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Hey, how busy is Teddy?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh my goodness. I was there last week. By midday
you'd hardly see the sand on the main beach. It
was just this vast slab of flesh, a heaving swarm
of semi naked humanity. And I don't know. She consider
that to be a relaxing holiday, called me old peasant.
I mean, particularly if you're holidaying with kids, you know,
with all that traffic. Me I would just be stressed
(04:26):
out if I had young kids in Toe. So if
you can schedule some beach time for February, it's the
place to be because Cari Territory is the central brilliance,
is all the more pleasurable after that peak summer crush
has cleared out, that enabled arc of Golden Sands. Waking
up to that and that first crack of daybreak across
(04:46):
Testan Bay. That is one of life's great pleasures.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It is like the landscapes there, the vistas, ohgeous, Like
it just feels like something. Yeah, yeah, it's like you're
in the Caribbean or something in a way, you know. Yeah,
it's just it's been honest. You know that it is
the only place in New Zealand. You know that, I
like come diving and snorkeling and nothing in the water.
(05:10):
It's the only place in New Zealand where I have
ever seen a seahorse in the wild. Yeah, in of
all places. Yeah, so there you go. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Like you say, though, you probably want a time you
run or if you're going to go over the Christmas
or New Years period, you want to book very very early. Indeed,
what about daunting to.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Marpoor Yeah, I love Marpor And obviously over the years
a lot of people have seen that name is synonymous
with the Birthday Suits brigade. But it's actually quite interesting
that in terms of the clothing optional set up. It
only operates at the local holiday park and it only
operates between the February and March, so don't let nudity
(05:50):
put you although its beach wale season, let's face it.
The other thing which I thought was really cool is
Marpua and Maldi means abundance or prolific, which is so
fitting when you go down to Marpo Wharf, which is
just such a leisure in pleasure zone and it's a
really easy hopscotch from the wharf across the Rabbit Island
(06:11):
with that theory that runs between the two.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, any standouts at the wharf for you?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Oh, it is just buzzing Mapul Wharf and it just
seems to grow from year to year in terms of
its offerings. So many great hospital spots. I love Golden Beer.
It is such a fabulous brew pub and man I
was chicking up their roster of live gigs over the
next four or five weeks. They had so many live
(06:38):
gigs at Golden Beer. I still love Hamish's ice Creams,
which is right across from Golden Beer. The real fruit
concoctions are just so good, just you know, tapping into
all that locally grown beery bizo and the ques. I
reckon that if you lined up Ferg Burger queues to
(06:58):
Hamish's ice cream queue might get the nod at this
time of the year. Just the seaside. And if you
look for a bit of art, Jack I would definitely
suggest people check out coll Store Gallery. It's one of
the Wharf's originals and it's just a legendary destination for
in the no art. It's just amazing paintings, jewelry, sculptures. Yeah,
(07:21):
coll Store is super cool.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Where does the Great Taste Trail take you to?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It can take you so many places, the places you
will ride to, so it's two hundred kilometers long. It
is a whopper of a trail. It truly is one
of New Zealand's great rights. So over two thirds of
it is off road, but it can take you up
to Ka Territory, through the Motowika Valley. It goes all
the way now to Nelson Richmond. But I want to
(07:48):
love about it. It's sort of tastily arranged into bite
sized chunks. So I've done the Richmond to Marpos section right,
that's a really easy twenty k ride for it does
a pancake pretty much around the water's edge. It does
go through rabbit Islands as well, and then you just
jump on the furry across to Martha. Rides are really good,
likes uf you want to add in a few vineyards
(08:10):
like Neudolf or MOTOI Hills Vineyard, take the rural routes
and it's just adding a bit of solitude to your
ride as well.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah. Nice. And it even goes right outside the front
door of my sister and brother in law's place, so
you might see my nephews and niece's running around as
well through bright water.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Don't be afraid to bang on the door and demand
some refreshments. Hey, thank you, Mike. Yeah, like you say,
it is a gorgeous part of the country, one I
absolutely love and I know many of our listeners do too.
We'll put all of Mike's tips for making your way
through Tasman Bay up on the News Talks. He'd be
website alongside everything from our show for more.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to News
Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks at.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
B our Travel correspondent Mike Yardley is with us all
this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hey Mike, good morning Jack. Very nice to talk and
I thought we would kick off with a powder of
New Zealand you are intimately familiar with, given half of
the country's holidaying there at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yes, there's true. Half the country is holidaying there at
the moment. I was fortunate enough to be holidaying there
with my family as well, which is always a pleasure.
We're talking about free roaming Tasman Bay, which is the
top of the South Island. So for anyone who's not
familiar with the geography here, if you divide the top
of the South into three parts, you've got Golden Bay
on the west side, You've got Tasman Bay in the middle,
(00:49):
and then you've got the Marlboro Sounds on the right
hand side. That's or of the easterly side way I
think about it day. So let's begin in Motorweka, which
is a sort of powerhouse of produce these days.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
As sure as Jack as a cat. That was funny.
I was feeling very nostalgic when I was there last week.
I remember when I was a child, the landscape was
just tobacco, that was the staple crop. And of course
today that landscape it's kind of like a library of
the Yates Garden Guide. You've got hops, You've got apple trees, vineyards,
the full spectrum of stone fruit that you obviously have
(01:25):
been eating your well jenner. You've got berry's galore. You
can just eat yourself forever in the Motaweka area. And
then there's the ocean delights. I have never come across
this before, and I'm intrigued to know if you are
aware of this. In Motaweka, if you go down to
the port, which is dominated by Telly's because it's the
(01:48):
home base of Telly's, the Telly's Factory shop, y oh
my goodness. They this justifies a holiday to Mataweka in
its own right, because if you go to the Telly's
Factory shop, you get the rashist blue cod from that
(02:09):
job and you cock it up in your motel and
I'd have to say it would be the best tasting
bluecot I have devowed in a long time. And it's
so much stupor than what you would normally get.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It for Yeah, of course, Oh, how amazing. That's a
great that's a great tip. And like you say, I
mean it's sort of an embarrassment of riches when it
comes to that. Yeah, you know, like all of the
different kind of farm gate stalls and stuff just selling
fresh berries and being a fresh produce. Yeah, and there's.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Still so many there's so many honesty boxes store op
racing that part of New Zealand, which I just love.
There is an innocence to the place.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, No, you're totally right. Hey is Noel Edmond's river
Haven with a visit.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's really interesting. That's quite a quirky enterprise, gorgeous setting
in the motorwork of valley village of Natty Malty. But
as I'm sure people are aware, the former UK TV
star has caught him quite a bit of controversy in
recent years. He seemed to get very much in cahoots
with the anti X crowd during COVID and he bought
(03:09):
the property about five years ago, so it was previously
known as Dunbar Estates. Today his farm turns out river
Haven Peno Green, really good wine. But there's the cafe,
there's a restaurant and the pub all adjacent to the vineyard,
which you can stroll through. He's got a massive classic
car collection which is on public display. He loves his
(03:31):
old jags. But I reckon the big charmer is the
pub the bugger in It's like it's been keeleyported from
a sleepy English village. And the word is ITV has
done a deal with NOL to do a reality TV
show this year from River. Haven't a Clarkton farm. It's
(03:52):
going to be an old farm. No word Jack on
whether mister Blobby gets a looking.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Hey, how busy is Teddy?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh my goodness. I was there last week. By midday
you'd hardly see the sand on the main beach. It
was just this vast slab of flesh, a heaving swarm
of semi naked humanity. And I don't know. She consider
that to be a relaxing holiday, called me old peasant.
I mean, particularly if you're holidaying with kids, you know,
with all that traffic. Me I would just be stressed
(04:26):
out if I had young kids in Toe. So if
you can schedule some beach time for February, it's the
place to be because Cari Territory is the central brilliance,
is all the more pleasurable after that peak summer crush
has cleared out, that enabled arc of Golden Sands. Waking
up to that and that first crack of daybreak across
(04:46):
Testan Bay. That is one of life's great pleasures.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It is like the landscapes there, the vistas, ohgeous, Like
it just feels like something. Yeah, yeah, it's like you're
in the Caribbean or something in a way, you know. Yeah,
it's just it's been honest. You know that it is
the only place in New Zealand. You know that, I
like come diving and snorkeling and nothing in the water.
(05:10):
It's the only place in New Zealand where I have
ever seen a seahorse in the wild. Yeah, in of
all places. Yeah, so there you go. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Like you say, though, you probably want a time you
run or if you're going to go over the Christmas
or New Years period, you want to book very very early. Indeed,
what about daunting to.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Marpoor Yeah, I love Marpor And obviously over the years
a lot of people have seen that name is synonymous
with the Birthday Suits brigade. But it's actually quite interesting
that in terms of the clothing optional set up. It
only operates at the local holiday park and it only
operates between the February and March, so don't let nudity
(05:50):
put you although its beach wale season, let's face it.
The other thing which I thought was really cool is
Marpua and Maldi means abundance or prolific, which is so
fitting when you go down to Marpo Wharf, which is
just such a leisure in pleasure zone and it's a
really easy hopscotch from the wharf across the Rabbit Island
(06:11):
with that theory that runs between the two.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, any standouts at the wharf for you?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Oh, it is just buzzing Mapul Wharf and it just
seems to grow from year to year in terms of
its offerings. So many great hospital spots. I love Golden Beer.
It is such a fabulous brew pub and man I
was chicking up their roster of live gigs over the
next four or five weeks. They had so many live
(06:38):
gigs at Golden Beer. I still love Hamish's ice Creams,
which is right across from Golden Beer. The real fruit
concoctions are just so good, just you know, tapping into
all that locally grown beery bizo and the ques. I
reckon that if you lined up Ferg Burger queues to
(06:58):
Hamish's ice cream queue might get the nod at this
time of the year. Just the seaside. And if you
look for a bit of art, Jack I would definitely
suggest people check out coll Store Gallery. It's one of
the Wharf's originals and it's just a legendary destination for
in the no art. It's just amazing paintings, jewelry, sculptures. Yeah,
(07:21):
coll Store is super cool.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Where does the Great Taste Trail take you to?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It can take you so many places, the places you
will ride to, so it's two hundred kilometers long. It
is a whopper of a trail. It truly is one
of New Zealand's great rights. So over two thirds of
it is off road, but it can take you up
to Ka Territory, through the Motowika Valley. It goes all
the way now to Nelson Richmond. But I want to
(07:48):
love about it. It's sort of tastily arranged into bite
sized chunks. So I've done the Richmond to Marpos section right,
that's a really easy twenty k ride for it does
a pancake pretty much around the water's edge. It does
go through rabbit Islands as well, and then you just
jump on the furry across to Martha. Rides are really good,
likes uf you want to add in a few vineyards
(08:10):
like Neudolf or MOTOI Hills Vineyard, take the rural routes
and it's just adding a bit of solitude to your
ride as well.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah. Nice. And it even goes right outside the front
door of my sister and brother in law's place, so
you might see my nephews and niece's running around as
well through bright water.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Don't be afraid to bang on the door and demand
some refreshments. Hey, thank you, Mike. Yeah, like you say,
it is a gorgeous part of the country, one I
absolutely love and I know many of our listeners do too.
We'll put all of Mike's tips for making your way
through Tasman Bay up on the News Talks. He'd be
website alongside everything from our show for more.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to News
Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
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