Bay News: Paihia Russell swim, Ōkaihau horses, Okiato tsunami, Deep Water Cove snorkel day
11 Mar, 2021 02:00 AM
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Rebecca Hamilton hits Russell beach after swimming from Paihia, and raising over $7000 in the process.
Rebecca Hamilton hits Russell beach after swimming from Paihia, and raising over $7000 in the process.
Northern Advocate
From Paihia to Kororāreka the hard way A few years ago, when Rebecca Hamilton was confined to a hospital bed for three months with a complicated pregnancy, she began to dream of an open water swim. Trouble is, she lived in Washington DC, USA, with not an ocean in sight so it stayed no more than a crazy idea .
Tātai whetū ki te rangi,
mau tonu, mau tonu
ngaro noa, ngaro noa.
Tatou kua hui mai nei
Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā tātou katoa
This is the fourth occasion that I have had the privilege of a powhiri at Te Whare Runanga in the lead up to Waitangi Day.
I thank you most sincerely for the manaakitanga you have extended to David and me. Our visits to Waitangi have provided us with some very special memories.
Highlights for me include the 160th anniversary of the flagstaff erected by Northern Maori on Maiki Hill at Kororāreka, in 2018. I was privileged to be the first Governor General to visit and acknowledge this significant gesture of goodwill made in 1858 by those northern rangatira.