City holds festival after Bluff cancels

Published date25 May 2023
Publication titleSouthland Express
On Saturday, the ILT’s Not The Bluff Oyster Festival promoted an experience for locals and visitors who were planning to attend the Bluff event, which was cancelled due to health and safety concerns around the Club Hotel building, which hosts the festival

ILT marketing and innovation executive Angee Shand said the tour was created not to compete with or replace the festival, but as something to cater for people who wanted to have an ‘‘oyster experience’’.

‘‘We only do it when the Bluff oyster festival isn’t going because we want to work in conjunction with those guys down there.

‘‘We need to celebrate these things every year because they’re amazing and they’re so unique to Southland and to our Bluff — so this is just us getting in behind what is beautiful southern produce.’’

About 90 people hopped on to a bus and visited five mystery locations throughout the day, she said.

Invercargill woman Nicola Wills said she expected a great day out.

‘‘Let’s celebrate the Bluff oyster.

‘‘As a good and proud Southlander, this is an opportunity for us to come and celebrate the oyster.

‘‘Obviously the oyster festival was unable to go ahead this year, but [it still was] a fantastic opportunity ... for us to still be able to celebrate it at that time of year.’’

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