Showing posts with label kaitaia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kaitaia. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 April 2025

Waves

 


I can't remember where I first saw this but I suspect it was in Kaitaia when we visited there about 5 years ago. It looks to me like it is Maori artwork that symbolises waves and the ocean and it would've been a photo I took as we drove past.

Linking up with Monday Murals.

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Little old houses

There are quite a few little old houses in the far north of New Zealand where I live. These 4 are in and around Awanui and Kaitaia. I always like to imagine their history and memories that they hold inside.





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Friday, 7 September 2018

Summer days at 90 Mile beach


This is one place I want to get back to once Summer comes from December until March. 90 Mile Beach is one of those places that goes on and on stretching from Kaitaia up to Cape Reinga. It's on the west coast of our North Island and is approx 88 miles long.


Its beach and sand dunes are popular with tourists - this area has been the culprit of quite a few shipwrecks in the old days. Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear drove along here in one of their episodes with James May.

Linking up with Skywatch Friday.

Westland Explorer's Monument

  In the nearby town of Hokitka (half an hour away) is the cemetery with this monument near the entranceway. It commemorates 4 men who lost ...