Pipiriki

Pipiriki is 79 kilometres from the city of Whanganui and is seen as the gateway to the Whanganui National Park. We’d stopped by the kiosk before making our way down

Unintended Consequences

A most fortunate (for we humankind) and unintended consequence of hubris is that it may sometimes take just by, and like the touch of a feather in the tender hand of a

Porches of Solitude

The first person I meet as I walk up from the car park toward St Joseph’s Church at Hiruharama is Sister Anna Maria Shortall. She was walking down to the church to check that everything was in order for the days visitors. She is one of only three Poutiriao (guardians, nurturers, protectors, caretakers) Sisters of […]

Hiruharama (Jerusalem)

You catch a glimpse of the steeple of St Joseph’s Church some way ahead of actually driving into Hiruharama (Jerusalem) up the Whanganui awa (river). It peers out at you from between the

Moutoa Island

It’s the start of autumn as we make this journey up the Whanganui awa (river) on our way to Hiruharama (Jerusalem). Autumn warms me more than any other single season in a calendar year. It has the soft foot fall of

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