Kaupapa Waka Archives - Travel With Tina

Posted July 29, 2012 by Martina Mcauley & filed under Travel Country: New Zealand.

6/2/2012 I was up at 5.45am. It was still dark of course but everybody was ‘up and at it’, by 6am, for breakfast. It was Waitangi Day, so an early rise was necessary. There were a few people like myself and Jello, who weren’t paddling wakas in the celebrations and we got down to Haruru… Read more »

Posted by Martina Mcauley & filed under Travel Country: New Zealand.

4/2/2012 Near the end of January, I got an email from Joe Conrad, the guy who was in charge of organising everything for the Kaupapa Waka (maintaining, celebrating and teaching the guiding principles of the Maori traditions) at Waitangi, to say that he had moved the location of Tent City to Haruru Falls. I missed… Read more »