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A Healing Island

Aotea rongoā practioner Phoebe Ngawaka, herbalist Fleur Winger and pou for Te Ao Haurongo Char Ngawaka Visitors drawn to the Te Ao Haurongo product display at community market days are tapping into deep island spirit....

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Things you won’t find on Aotea

There are some things you won’t find on Aotea, but once you’ve got your head around this the alternatives may just become the best part of your island experience.  You won’t find... Large supermarkets...but try...

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The Wingman Returns

It takes a lot of blood sweat and tears to create Aotea’s big day out. The island’s Wingman Festival returns Saturday January 28 next year and trustee Renee Freeland says the local organisers have doubled...

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A Guide to Aotea’s Nightlife

[caption id="attachment_3796" align="aligncenter" width="683"] Carol Comer, Milkyway, Kaiaraara[/caption] Aotea’s nightlife is remarkable. I’m not talking Thursday open mike nights at the Currach, the sets by local DJs at the clubs or the annual Aotea Live...

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Signs and waves

Signs say a lot about place. When I return to Auckland after a long spell on the island, I’m aware of the insistence of signage. I can’t help myself from reading them and by the...

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Moorings

Private registered moorings There are privately owned registered moorings in several of the harbours around Aotea Great Barrier Island's coast Moorings are located predominantly in Tryphena, Okupu, Whangaparapara, in and around Port FitzRoy. Many visitors...

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Living by grace

Micky was hitchhiking from the airport. She told me she hoped to pick up work in bar or restaurant and find a place to live. I dropped her near the church at Medlands (Ōruawharo) and...

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A time and place for rāhui

Visitors to the West Coast bays of Aotea may have noticed they have company. Carved figures or pou appeared shortly after the discovery of exotic Caulerpa brachypus seaweed in island waters as symbols of the...

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Artistic Expression

Port Chalmers-based, Ireland-born writer Majella Cullinane spent nine weeks in a one-room log cabin on Aotea as part of a writing sabbatical funded through an Auckland Museum Research Grant. [caption id="attachment_3629" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Majella Cullinane...

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Passion Projects

I’m sitting on the veranda of what was once the villa homestead on a 400-acre farm running down to the beach at Mulberry Grove, near where the ferry arrives. Derek Bell bought it on a...

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