타임 선정 ‘2024 최고의 명소 100’중 2곳 선정
마운트 쿡 레이크사이드 리트리트(Mt Cook Lakeside Retreat)
북섬 앞바다에 있는 다이브 투투카카(Dive Tutukaka)
타임지의 브래드는 Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve와 인접해 별을 풍부하게 관측할 수 있는 것에 중점을 두고 마운트 쿡 레이크사이드 리트리트의 많은 특징들을 나열했다.(리조트 링크)
그는 "뉴질랜드 남섬의 척박한 지형에 있는 높은 산악 고원에 자리 잡은 Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve는 지구상에서 별을 관찰할 수 있는 최고의 장소 중 하나"라고 말한다.
Perched atop a high mountain plateau in the sparse terrain of New Zealand’s South Island, the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve is among the best places on the planet to gaze up at the stars. At the Mt Cook Lakeside Retreat you can marvel at no less than a billion of them, paired with pinot noir and charred venison. The luxurious lodge, skirting the edge of Lake Pukaki, now offers dinner and a show like no other. It begins with a six-course tasting menu—composed primarily of locally sourced proteins and foraged greens. Highlights might include Manuka honey-glazed alpine salmon and pasture-raised beef, finely marbled, seared, and plated beside raspberry puree and pink flower petals. As night descends you migrate to a neighboring wine cellar which adjoins the region’s sole observatory. It houses a high-power, fully-automated telescope and innkeeper and amateur astronomer Luke Paardekooper utilizes his advanced gadgetry to share Saturn’s rings, star clusters, and impossibly distant nebula in brilliant detail. He’ll even attach a DSLR camera to his rig to accommodate take-home astrophotography. The experience is offered nightly, and must be booked in advance online. If you get lucky, it might include a rare glimpse of the elusive southern lights. But a pour of whisky or wine—to sip as you contemplate the cosmos—is guaranteed.
다이브 투투카카는 가볼 만한 곳으로 리스트에 올랐는데, 이곳이 북섬 북쪽 해양 보호 구역에 있는 Poor Knights Island 바다로 모든 모험가들이 찾게 만든다고 말했다.
The Maori concept of kotahitanga refers to unity and collaboration, and is reflected in a new accreditation awarded to a long-standing scuba diving operator that is making the sport more accessible. Dive Tutukaka, the first in New Zealand to be named a PADI Adaptive Services Facility, brings adventurers of all levels (truly) to the waters of Poor Knights Island in the Marine Protected Area off New Zealand’s North Island with comprehensive services and infrastructure to “meet the needs of divers with physical, psychological, or mental challenges,” says Fraser Bathgate, the Adaptive Techniques Coordinator for PADI Worldwide. Bathgate, who was paralyzed in a climbing accident in his 20s and later learned to scuba dive, says Dive Tutukaka epitomizes PADI’s commitment to cultivating diversity and inclusion across the dive industry–a movement he hopes dive centers and resorts around the world will be inspired to follow. At Dive Tutukaka’s lodge, that means wider door entrances, sloped floors and ramps, and signage placed at an appropriate level for wheelchair users; on its fleet of boats, railings were removed and access widened throughout. Staff-to-diver ratios are lowered to accommodate all abilities and instructors are taught to modify training when attention span is limited, noises associated with diving are traumatic, or fins and gloves need to be fitted differently. It’s all aimed at making it easier to access some of the world’s best subtropical underwater sights, including massive schools of blue maomao, colorful nudibranchs (gastropod mollusks with often fanciful forms), and stingrays. The certification and training takes so-called “special needs” and normalizes them, says Dive Tutukaka owner Kate Malcom. “The ocean is a great leveler—none of us should be there, and yet we all can. It opens such wonder for us all.”
참고 : 타임즈 선정 The World's Greatest Places of 2024 웹사이트
뉴질랜드에 살아보니 위 기사에서 말하는 것처럼 꼭 남섬에 가야 별을 잘 볼 수 있는 건 아니다. 남북섬 어느 곳이든 도심 주거지에서 자동차로 30분 정도만 벗어난다면 쏟아지는 별들과 은하수를 볼 수 있다.
나는 예전에 파키리 낚시 갔을 때 해변에 누워 바라보던 밤하늘과 은하수, 불현듯 지나가던 별똥별들을 잊을 수 없다.
그리고 다현이 학교에서 존슨베이로 캠프 갔을 때 야간탐험 중 우리 머리 위를 지나가던 기차 같던 스타링크 위성들의 행렬을 잊을 수 없다.
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