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| Thread ID: 103378 | 2009-09-21 01:37:00 | North of Auckland - what to see and do | FoxyMX (5) | PC World Chat |
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| 812311 | 2009-09-23 21:37:00 | Waitangi's nice to visit so you can say you've been there.A lot different now to when I wired the place for security years ago ! That whole area is nice. Ferry across to Russell is great too, but don't bother driving back to Whangarei on the coast road. Very long and windy. And definitely the Kauri Museum in Matakohe. See if you can spot my great grandfather in some of the bush photos. Is he the one with dressed in old clothes with an ax and a ciggie hanging out of his mouth next to a fallen tree? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 812312 | 2009-09-24 09:24:00 | Is he the one with dressed in old clothes with an ax and a ciggie hanging out of his mouth next to a fallen tree? Very clever Prefect ! :lol: :lol: :lol: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 812313 | 2009-12-03 05:45:00 | Had a nice surprise today, Foxy stopped in and said "Hello!" It sounds like they have had a great time up here in the north, they've certainly had great weather. Sorry I couldn't chat longer Foxy, as you saw when you came in, we have been very busy. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 812314 | 2009-12-03 06:00:00 | Lucky guy. Would love to meet Foxy. | Greg (193) | ||
| 812315 | 2009-12-06 08:51:00 | Cheers CYaBro. Was neat putting a face to another name from the forum and having a chat. :cool: We certainly did have a great time up there and were on the go virtually the whole time as there was so much to see and do. Didn't manage to do everything I wanted but that just gives me an excuse to go up again. :p The highlight of the holiday would have to be the dive trip that we took out to the Poor Knights Islands. Since I can no longer scuba dive due to my ears I was reluctant to go initially but was talked into going out and having a snorkel and boy, was I so glad that I did. The conditions were perfect for the Blue Maomao Arch (aperfectday.co.nz), rated by the late Jacques Cousteau as being one of the top ten dive sites in the world. It was absolutely awesome drifting through the cave full of thousands of pretty blue maomao fish (www.seathings.co.nz) swimming right in my face at fingertips' reach and hovering over stingrays, big snapper and other fish. It was just like swimming in an aquarium. :cool: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 812316 | 2009-12-06 09:06:00 | Sadly, of we knew if you were coming up via Auckland, we may have held a PF1 meetup... | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 812317 | 2009-12-06 19:38:00 | To go north of Auckland, is there any other way to go? ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 812318 | 2009-12-06 22:55:00 | one or two lol so I was one of the two in Kaitaia in February where some maoris attacked our camper. Although we were rescued by the police and the crooks got a hiding for resisting arrest it was terrifying and according to the police a common event. Northland is not as safe as the rest of New Zealand be careful. Hone Harawira country. What else can I say? :angry |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 812319 | 2009-12-06 23:26:00 | Say terrified thats how I felt. I was parked in a NATO POP in Kaitaia town at about 2.00 AM when 2 maoris tried to get into the camper they destroyed the kids bikes on the carrier. I have never felt so hopeless in defending my wife and kids and prayed I could have had a gun so could have wasted them. Will never happen again I take crossbow and a machete in the camper now. Was lucky because police station was close and they came and gave the criminals a hiding blood everywhere next morning. Even writing this and remembering it has stressed me out now my heart is racing |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 812320 | 2009-12-07 00:08:00 | Say terrified thats how I felt. Even writing this and remembering it has stressed me out now my heart is racing What a horrible experience, Prefect. Not to detract from your ordeal, but this will serve to illustrate we're not too far removed from a history of violence and whole scale genocide in Northland. A bit OT, but let's look at the history of Ngapuhi. In the book Ancient Celtic NZ by Martin Doutre, he gives a compelling account of some unsettling events in our history. In the early 1800's settlers in the Dargaville / Waipua areas came across literally in excess of 10,000 skeletons in caves or trees, in each case, the skulls were almost ritually bashed in on the same side. The Governor of the day being cognisant of the issues, needed to ensure the remains were disposed of appropriately, and asked local iwi what their instructions were. They replied it was not of their concern, as the remains were "not of us" (Ngapuhi). Being a pragmatist, the Governor was decided that as no-one wished to lay claim to the remains, they would be be shipped by barge to Onehunga there to be crushed into bonedust. Each skull was counted, and this data recorded in the New Zealand Gazette, the Diary of the Nation. Subsequently, some surviving remains were carbon dated during last century. The results of the carbon dating were embargoed until I think around 2070. I'm not sure of the date, but it is important to recognise the date was fixed so that the results would not impact on any person living at the time of the carbon dating. Between the lines, the date of the genocide would possibly be fixed not much before the Treaty of Waitiangi. :angry |
WalOne (4202) | ||
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