Christmas Dinner

[Frederick Lacey]

Being as Bluff is mentioned I thought it would be of interest re a photo I put on the gallery on my photo's
of approaching Bluff in the early fifties. tis on Dock, Locks, Harbours and Marinas. sixty years on, I reckon
it looks a lot different now. Fred.

Have just Google Earthed it, not to different as I remember it, the tanks in the photo are still there. F

[Lou Barron]

Some of the best sea foods come down in the south as regards to mutton birds i just love them years ago i use to buy them uncooked and cook them myself but i had to cook them outside in the back garden because of the smell and my late wife use to go mad because the smell she did not like in them days it would cost about 5 dollars now they are about 20 dollars
As for oysters we use to buy a sack full about 18 dozen for about 16dollars now they are 25 dollars a dozen i still have my oyster knife when i use to open up my self nothing like a Bluff oyster

[Charlie Hannah]

Some of the best sea foods come down in the south-- nothing like a Bluff oyster

Lou, i used to love going to Bluff,always ended up after the pub closed at the chippy either mutton birds or Bluff oysters in whitebait batter.Beautiful still taste them now. used to go to the pub that burned down forget the name of it now.

[Lou Barron]

They use to be Three pubs in Bluff they were the Golden Age,Eagle and the Bay View now closed having not been down that way for a few years i only think that there is only one pub now i might be wrong but i think it is the Golden Age

[Doc Vernon]

Lou
Looks like the Bay view is still open?? But I stand corrected,as this may be an oldLink!
Cheers

The New Zealand Journal: Most Southern in the World #7 - Pub Hotel Bluff NZ

The Golden Age is in the News Lou!
Eeeeek!

Southland police are appealing for witnesses to an assault outside a Bluff pub which has left a local man with a serious head injury.

Invercargill and Bluff Police are investigating the assault which occurred outside the Golden Age Hotel at around 5pm on Sunday.

The 46-year-old victim was treated at Southland Hospital and later transferred to Dunedin Hospital for treatment.

His condition is still being assessed by hospital staff, police say.


Sign in a NZ Pub LOL
Capture Sigb in NZ pUB.JPG

[gray_marian]

Hotel Bluff does not look nearly as grand now More's the pity....

[Lou Barron]

It was only the inside that i was interested in Marian

[Richard Quartermaine]

On the Gothic in 1952 we sailed from Hobart to Dunedin. The weather coming around, I think we did the Fauveaux Strait instead of around south of Stewart Island, was absolutely calm much to the astonishment of the doomsayers.
In Dunedin Commadore AV (Dickie) Richardson was visited by Captain James who, coincidentally was the master of the old SS Raranga on my second trip being Sydney to London in August/September/October 1947. It was quite an occasion for it was supposed to be a Royal one.
Richard

[happy daze john in oz]

#17, 'Smoked mutton birds' Thank goodness for that Richard, thought that was another faux-pas on my part

No Marion, smoked as in smoked Salmon, not for smoking as in weed or other substances.

[Charlie Hannah]

Lou it was the Golden Age i was on about it burned down, think it was either 50s or the 60s.Not sure now long time ago.

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Vernon has that pub been rebuilt? as i am sure it's the one that burned down many years ago.