Koriniti (Corinth)
I’d stood in front of the large road map at the turn-off into the Whanganui River Road (a tall wooden weathered one, showing towns and activities of interest along I’d followed the blue ribbon that was the awa (river) with my eyes. It had a Maori totem feel about it this road sign. Its single […]
Ātene (Athens)
By the time we reach Ātene we’ve travelled 36kms. We round a bend in the road and suddenly the paddock is filled with spectacular Naked Ladies Amaryllis Belladona lillies. Amaryllis is from the Greek meaning ‘to sparkle’, their amaranth pink loveliness startling my eyes with their pastoral wonder. In the early 1900’s, visitors called the […]
Voice of a River
There’s a short contemporary saying here among the people of the Whanganui awa (river). “The river calls us.” I KNOW this expression, I really do. I know it in the very heart of
Haerenga (The Journey) Revisited
There’s a good deal of wisdom I think, in knowing where the beginning of a journey is, yet not the end. I feel sometimes if we knew the end then perhaps we
Aramoana, Pathway to the Sea
The river road turnoff is 14km north of Whanganui and at 17km there’s a breath-taking lookout called Aramoana (meaning ‘Pathway to the Sea’) Hilltop Summit. It’s oftentimes called
