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This summer's unseasonably cold, wet and windy weather in the South Island has disrupted the holiday plans of thousands of campers.
Day after day of wind and rain in the past few weeks have sent sent thousands home early.
Frank Hall says it is the coldest, windiest summer of his 35 years of camping in the upper Waitaki Valley.
"We're going to camp in August and July - I think it might be warmer," he says.
Waitaki camp supervisor Simon Fox says this summer he saw probably some of the biggest winds ever round his camp in seven years.
"I just don't remember a summer that's gone on for so long, with such a long cold, windy, wet spell," says Chris Illingworth from Glendhu Bay Motor Camp in Wanaka.
Around Nelson camp attendances have been up but they have had their issues with weather too.
Though Tahuna Holiday Park's Ann Cumpstone says many of her visitors have just put up with it.
"They just go well, that's camping. If we're in a tent, we've got an awning, we know what's going to happen. So that's camping."
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