Helicopters Otago pilot, Andy Baird, swings a 350kg load of timber on to a small deck beside the Nugget Pt Lighthouse in the Catlins yesterday morning. Kim Rapley, who with his team is building a fence around the lighthouse. Happily, for once, it was not an emergency rescue for Helicopters Otago, but instead a special delivery of building supplies to Nugget Pt for contractor Kim Rapley Fencing, of Dunedin. Mr Rapley was no stranger to precipitous projects, having worked previously on high country farm fencing contracts and at Fiordland’s Deep Cove and West Arm. However, he said this latest had been among the most challenging — not least because of the weather which had been chilling.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 23, 2020 16:30 UTC