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Waitaki lakes campers Corina Bond, left, with husband Russell and daughter Renee. Corina and Russell met as teenagers when they were camping at Parsons Rock.
A place to get away from it all can also be a place where romance blossoms as Stuff reporter Al Williams discovered when he delved into holiday camping lifestyles at the popular Waitaki
lakes in the South Island. Corina Bond was 17 when she met her future husband, Russell, while camping at Parsons Rock on the shores of Lake Aviemore. “I started going to that camping spot when I was 12,’’ she said. “Russell and I lived in different towns, we started going out together the year we met and it has never stopped.