You are here:
Home / Archives for reign
The mechanical horses beneath the bonnet of our car seemed to be straining at the bit, they wanted to gallop to the bottom of the Bombay Hills. I gave them reign. With the window wound down again I felt the wind on my face and I was reminded of
Tags: 2-beat movement, 4-beat movement, adopted, anguilla dieffencachii, antipodeans, appreciate, australasian bittern, author, banded rail, Birds, bit, black mudfish, blog, blog writer, Bombay Hills, bonnet, botaurus poiciloptilus, bowdleria punctata vealeae, canter, car, catchments, Central hawkes Bay, comfortable, comicStyle, educative, endemic long finned eels, face, feeling, fish species, flats, flood control, fly, gait, gallop, game birds, globally, go, grey gelding, Hastings New Zealand, Hauraki Plains, Hawke's Bay, heels, home, horse power, importance, international, Jason Frazer, kiwi, kiwiStyle, Kopuatai Peat Dome, lifeStyle, maori, marsh crake, mechanical horses, mid-air, mind, mindStyle, mineralised swamps, neochanna diversus, New Zealand, new zealanders, North Island fernbird, pace, pasifka, pass, peat dome, penneylane, penneylaneonline, penneylaneonline.com, physical features, Piako, polynesian, pontifications, porzana pusilla affinis, powerful, protected, protection, provide, rallus philpensis assimillis, Ramsar status, reflections, reign, remind, response, restiad peat bog, retirement, riders, roking motion, saddle, sense, showjumper, small areas, springs, State Highway 1, storage, teenager, term, thoughts, trot, turnStyle, twistedmusings.com.au, unbridled, unique, unprotected, views, Waipukurau, Waitoa, weight, Wet and Wild, wetlands, where mindStyle matters, wind, window, writer, writing, writings
Driving through Taupiri it would be easy to think there’s nothing special about this little place but you’d be wrong. Taupiri is the sacred mountain of the Waikato people. It is remembered in the tribal saying:
Tags: alive, alluvial plain, antipodeans, arrival, Auckland-Hamilton highway, author, Battle Rangiriri, being, blog, blog writer, bushclad, Central hawkes Bay, chiefs, cloud of witnesses, comicStyle, Dame Te Atairangikahu, debate, district, european, European settlers, fitting, Hamilton, Hastings New Zealand, Hawke's Bay, hills, Human Documents, Jason Frazer, King Country, king movement, kingship, kiwi, kiwiStyle, legs, lifeStyle, maori, maori authority, maori kings, maori Queen, maori settlement, maori tribes, map, march, mindStyle, named, New Zealand, new zealanders, North Island, North Island Main trunk, offered, pasifka, penneylane, penneylaneonline, penneylaneonline.com, people, place, polynesian, pontifications, Potatau I, Potatau Te Wherowhero, promote, railway, reflections, reign, Rohe Potae, sacred mountain, safety, sales of land, south island, special, stories, stretch, Taranaki, Taupiri, Tawhiao, Te Kingitanga, thoughts, tribal sayings, turnStyle, twistedmusings.com.au, views, waikato ancestors, Waikato chief, waikato people, waikato war, Waipukurau, where mindStyle matters, writer, writing, writings