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As i sit by the stony lake side, i hear the raw of boat motors go in-and-out of shore. As i walk along i hear the crunch if stones and inhale the sweet smell of pinecones and clean, fresh air. I look across to see ruby island surrounded by water that reflects like a mirror. I feel hot but happy as i know no other place makes me feel more at ease. The memories here are eternal. We race to the biscuit to get on one of them when we go out to double biscuit. Zooming in the wake then, we turn and off the wake we go. Even if we fall off we don't care because fun. Wannaka history and more. Early Otago Maori used local passes to reach the greenstone (pounamu) on the West Coast. There was small Maori settlements at Wanaka and Hawea, mostly camping places for the summer fishing and fowling. .Soon after, the gold rushes in Central Otago brought a huge demand for the timber at the lake and large amounts of sawn lengths from Makarora and Matukituki were floated down the Clutha to Cromwell and Clyde. The thing that attracts people to wanaka is not so much the history but the geographical side. Having the lake and flat ground to build houses on. Wanaka is a place where you can chill and just have fun whatever you decide to do.
 * __Wanaka- (Waterfall creek) __**



This is a photo of lake wannaka just down the road from my best-friends house. You can see ruby island poking out to the right. This is our boating destination.

**__I Remember:__** I remember I was going to wannaka for the christmas holidays, and on the car ride we all decided to make a pit stop at the pannets who is the parents of my best friend (jordan) and good friends with my mum and dad in millers-flat. When we got there Jordan ( my best friend) had the paddling pool set up so i borroed some of her togs and we got to swimming while our parents enjoyed talking to one another. We made up a routine of us running in-and-out off the paddling pool and doing other random stuff. Once the routine was completed we proformed it to our parents. We thought it was the coolest routine EVER!! I know that this is not a very exciting memory but it is something that i will remember forever.

__What makes wanaka special to me?__ ** I guess what makes wanaka special to me is the memories we have there. You can't really leave a place with so many great memoires. I have been going to wannaka for a long time now mabye every year for five years on the christmas holidays. Before we holiday'd in wannaka we went to clyde which is near alexandra. We still love clyde but even whan we holiday'd in clyde we used to go to wannaka to visit friends and we loved wannaka even then.