Nov 30, 2025 Overland Trek
Moving day! We’re driving from the west coast to the east coast of the North Island, a four and a half hour drive. But of course it took us almost 7 hours! We stopped in the little town of Pātea to see the memorial to one of the Great Waka (canoe) of the Māori migration.
This is a memorial to the waka ‘Aotea’ one of the 50 waka from the oral traditions of the Maori; “These accounts give several different uses for the waka: many carried Polynesian migrants and explorers from Hawaiki to New Zealand; others brought supplies or made return journeys to Hawaiki…” (Wiki)
Then of course we had to stop for lunch!
You can’t pass by “GodsOwn Brewery”! We had beer and pizza in the garden with the hop field in the background.