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Friday 26th March: After-work drinks at the Monster Bar, Lyttelton. 6pm onwards.
It's the downstairs one from the better-known Wunderbar, they sell beer, good snack food and regularly host jammin' sessions that may well get you in the mood for a groove.
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All welcome, both locals, visitors, immigrants, those with all the gear, those with none of the gear, the quiet, the gregarious, the amusing, the self-deprecating. Simply turn up! Everything not actually involving the getting wet kayaking.
Audience vote for favourite brewpub of the moment:
#1: Yellow Cross, Sol Square - half price beers and other stuff kept the conversation flowing just fine!
#2: Twisted Hop, Lichfield Lane - primo on-site brewed beer and a great selection of bottled stuff too.
#3: Pomeroys - biggest selection, occasionally free snacks on a Friday eve but a bit off_the_pace ambience-wise.
Have your say by completing the aforementioned online survey (takes less than a minute of your life, only four checkbox style questions blah, blah..) and tell us what you want organised. With sufficient support we will make it happen – with some help from you, the members.
Questions, comments, suggestions, invites to openings of crisp packets, film premieres and beer or wine tastings to the below email.
Cheers!
DavidB (find in the member directory)
social@whitewater.org.nz
'Regular' events:
Last Thursday or Friday of the month - after-work drinks at a nominated brewpub in Christchurch. 5.30-7pm usually, sometimes cheap eats afterwards if people keen. Check the triplist or Social >upcoming events for details.
Kayaking most weekends in the summer from September through to May. Legendary socials off the back of those, but you've got to be 'in it to win it'! Sign up for the beginners courses here and be transported to a WhiterWater way of thinking about drinking (and paddling & fraternising).
Previous events:
Friday 26th February - incredibly special and flash after-work drinks and movie at Rialto Cinema/ French Film Festival.
There were two films, either 'Every Jack has a Jill - starting at 6.30pm (80mins runtime) or 'Bellamy' starting at 8.30pm (110mins runtime). There were smartly dressed people present, there was a tension that was palpable by it's presence, there were empty stomachs, there were only a couple of empty seats, there was a paucity of blokes. But don't worry, normal beering service will be resumed soon - luddites!
Friday 29th January. After-work drinks at Yellow Cross, (Sol Square, Struthers Lane, 179 Tuam St)..
Yellow Cross is the overwhelming audience choice - variously described as pokey 'dive-bar' or 'best of a bad bunch', but significant saving graces are a massive choice of beers on and off-tap, wine, other liquid preferences. The intangible thing called 'atmosphere' has been promised in buckets, so no need to bring buckets...
From 5.30pm, spot JohnH looking cheeky and you won't go far wrong.
Xmas paddle and barbeque - 9am Saturday 19th December 2009.
Phew, that was a close one (with the weather..). Dubious clouds giving way to bright and not breezy sunshine which was enjoyed by about 50 men and women good and true. Paddling was enjoyed, weirs were overcome, shallow waters were nudged across. Broad smiles suggest most/ all/ some enjoyed themselves. Peter Timbs provided the bbq meats, AlH and RichardL generously supplied barbeques and tables, GraemeW was spotted flipping burgers and wielding the 'company' cheque book, Kim and Michaela made the food appetising with condiments supply, others beavered away in the background to make the day appear as if it had been organised to within a cm of its life. The salads that arrived were crisp and tasty, the amazing cakes (thanks Maria) were gone in less than sixty seconds and there wasn't a Keanu in sight.
Thanks to everyone who helped in ways big and small, perfectly formed and steamroller-like. Thanks also to the long-suffering WWCC committee for putting up with my ever-changing event budget and who WILL at some point pay for all the food - on members behalf.
Send photos to social@whitewater.org.nz and will chuck a few on the site like.
Thursday 17th December at the Belgian Beer Cafe, from 5.30pm. We were outside, the weather was good, the beer strong. Location here via Google maps.
Friday 27th November - after-work drinks at the Twisted Hop. 5.30-7pm. (Lots of) you arrived, descended and graced the balmy outside tables with your presence, drank suitably responsibly and enjoyed a fine evening of novice/ old hand/ dyed in the wool/ fresh faced keenness conversation and repartee. The Hop staff looked after us brillianty - respect to Jess for holding tables inside and out dependent on what the weather was going to do. The Twisted Hop, Poplar Lane, Christchurch Village.
Friday 30th October. After-work drinks at Dux De Lux, Arts Centre, Christchurch 5.30-7pm.
Full details here . My wasn't there a jolly bunch of die-hards and recent faces, intermingled with conversation and beer and everything in between. Plans were made, drinks were drunk, drunks were ejected - joy resulted.
Friday 25th September. After-work drinks were drunk at the new Macs Brewbar in Poplar Lane. Stylishly dressed female kayakers turned up, male kayakers looked on admiringly, beer was drunk, snacks consumed - nobody got hurt.
Friday 28th August. After-work drinks at the Twisted Hop, Poplar Lane 5.30-7pm. JohnH just about managed to turn up to host, beer, wine and non-alco's featured, people schmoozed. Brass Monkey experiences were compared. Result > happiness!
Thursday 30th July. 'Thirsty Thursday' drinks at the Dux De Lux. Full details here. Arthur headed the Irish grade IV kayak/ enjoying quaffing ale contingent and was delighted to be your co-host for the evening. A small (but perfectly formed) gang attended and enjoyed until 'later than usual' the fine fare on tap and on plates.
14th July from 6.30pm-9pm. Kayak pub quiz at the Thirsty Marriners in
Sumner.
Thirty adventurous souls and partners, hangers on and all-round good eggs enjoyed a night to remember hosted by WWCC social and quiz master extraordinaire HughC. Points made prizes allright with "The really cool people" named team taking overall points honours, closest cumecs Q and some of the spot prizes too. Other winners on the evening took home prizes worth $10,000 including kayaks*, prizes generously donated by Paddlerzone and Canoe and Outdoor World and your very own WWCC. 'An evening with JohnH' was voted as most popular prize...
* Ok, it was kayak hires but the boats were definitely worth plenty moolah.
19th June. After-work drinks at Pomeroys.
Twenty suitably attired (like drinking real beer and wearing clothes) peeps arrived to find their host JohnH deciding between on-tap brews, mulling the meaning of life and showing the rest of us the path to true enlightenment WWCC/ kayak style. He was the perfect host, turner-upee's enjoyed selves immense big, girls were suitably impressed.
22nd May. After-work drinks at The Twisted Hop.
Your co-host for the eve Mr AlH graced us with his presence - after everyone else had already turned up and found their own ways through the menu, then redeemed himself beyond reproach by buying this author a beer. Imbibing continued for some time and cheap eats at a secret local venue kept wolves from stomach doors.
17th April. After-work drinks at Pomeroys.
26th March. After-work drinks at The Dux.