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A General Overview
of
The Glorious Chatham Islands
and
The Waitangi West
Paradise Peninsular
Portion of Them
The Chatham Islands is a group of about ten islands that are part of New Zealand territory and are located approximately 700 km to the east of Christchurch. The largest, Chatham Island and Pitt Island, are the only ones that are inhabited. The smaller islands are conservation reserves with access restricted or prohibited. The permanent population, made up of wonderfully friendly and accommodating selective crop and sheep farmers and fishing families - some of them the descendants of the original settlers that arrived several centuries before them - was at the 2006 Census 609, with around 200 resident in the main town Waitangi.
Several tourist facility enterprises have also been established to take advantage of the unique environment, which attracts scientists and naturalists, and of course the abundant pristine waters are a magnet to fishing enthusiasts and seafood connoisseurs worldwide.
The islands are generally hilly with the coasts a varied mixture including cliffs and sand dunes, beaches and lagoons. Pitt is more rugged than Chatham, although the highest point (299 metres / 981 feet) is on a plateau near the southernmost point of the main island. The climate is mild with average temperatures between 5c and 10c during winter and between 17c and 22c during summer.
Chatham has two primary schools and Pitt has one. Past primary grades some students choose to attend boarding schools on the mainland, while others take the correspondence school option, which now incorporates the Internet education principle. There is a small hospital in Waitangi that has a resident doctor. A bank, post office, general stores, shipping wharf are also located here, along with a small police station manned by one resident police officer, who - for lack of actual police work to keep him busy - seconds as customs and immigration officer, among other general community oversight duties.
'Air Chathams', is the Islands' own air service and operates services to Auckland on Thursdays, Wellington on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and Christchurch on Tuesdays. A one way trip on their 'Convair 580' aircraft takes around 90 minutes. Freight is mostly via the ferry service to Napia and Timaru, which takes 4-5 days one way. Public transport is non-existent, but local hospitality providers generally accommodate transfer services. Although there are sealed roads in the towns and some beyond, most others are gravel. The Islands are situated well out of the cyclone belt and have mostly pleasant weather for at least 9 months of the year.
The 'Waitangi West Station' portion of the main island covers an area of more than 3,400 hectares (some 8,400+ acres). As the westernmost peninsular it has ocean frontage on three sides and is unique (apart from its size and location) in as much as it is entirely detached from the rest of the Chatham Island community. As such it is wonderfully secluded - without being isolated - and is the perfect location for the establishment of an Alternative Lifestyle Community Co-operative (that includes selective Carbon Farming) development as is detailed in 'Part A' of the video presentation. But the potential is certainly not limited to that.
It was in 1960 that the vendors, two brothers who were born to farmers in Switzerland, migrated to New Zealand and decided to pool their savings and purchase this magnificent Waitangi West Peninsular. They then set about establishing the largest fleece sheep station in the region and eventually - without any financial encumbrance to the property - had a flock of over 10,000 animals.
They operated a very successful and profitable sheep farming business (adopting a completely organic approach) for the following 45 years, but due to the invention of synthetics the global wool market prices began to plummet. That combined with increasing production costs made wool farming a far less attractive proposition, and as they had no desire to embrace a new challenge at their age they decided it is time to retire.
They reasoned that the sensible approach to that end is for them to move to a smaller holding and, although not relinquishing entirely the bounty that mother nature has showered upon them for almost 5 decades, to pass the enormous potential to exploit that and the advent of the highly lucrative Carbon Trading Scheme - recently initiated by the NZ government - to others who are sufficiently astute to take full advantage of it all. However, apart from that, and because it is in fact a truly unique and seductively serene, richly fertile and picturesque piece of real estate, that is surrounded on three shores by some of the most pristine and abundant waters on the planet, the potential for additional, though judicious, development is enormous.
A once in a lifetime opportunity for say 20 to 30 like minded and capable families who share a common passionate desire to create their very own high yield Safe Haven Utopia to which they can escape a world that is becoming increasingly less hospitable. A sanctuary in which children can be raised in a wholesome environment, where crime, pollution, substance abuse, corruption, ominous Chemtrails, toxic fluoridated water, deadly vaccines, GMO crops, surveillance cameras and other privacy invasion, escalating food prices and shortages, and other influences that make living in much of the developed world ever more difficult to cope with, simply do not exist.
That's not to say that a single capable family or entity would not be able to be the sole purchaser and undertake something similar to reap the very significant profits that can be generated.
After viewing all three videos presented here it will go without saying that property acquisition opportunities of this calibre and with such enormous potential are virtually extinct in this day and age. As such he who procrastinates will simply miss out.
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