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The Alexandra Blossom Festival is the longest-running community event of its kind in New Zealand. It’s been up there since 1968, a silent presence above the town, always visible, day or night. It’s the background to daily life in Alexandra, the Central Otago town known as Alex to its friends and, famously, rarely absent from TV weather lists of the country’s hottest, or coldest, daily temperatures. Tourism Central Otago The track up to the clock is steep but short. Built in a remarkable 42 working days by the Jaycees, at a cost to them of almost $3000, the clock face is 11 metres across, making it the biggest of its kind in the country. Its white hands and hour markers show up well in daytime against the baked rock of the Knobbies Range and, at night, they are illuminated: lit first by 150 torch bulbs, then white LED lights and now coloured ones.

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