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To the Mackenzie country now, where hundreds of rowers are excited to get back out on the water today, and get racing.
They're in Twizel, for the National Championships regatta at Lake Ruataniwha.
They've spent most of the week sitting idle, because of the Covid Alert Level restrictions.
Now, most of the country's returned to Alert Level 1 and they've got three days to squeeze all the racing in.
Rowing New Zealand manager Sonya Walker spoke to Corin Dann.