Though it is little more than a speck in the ocean, Tuhua (Mayor Island) has a remarkable history of violent volcanic upheaval, bloody tribal warfare and legendary big game fishing. Buddy Mikaere tells the story of an island which ranks as one of the jewels of the Bay of Plenty....
Finding the San Benito’s propeller was the high point of underwater photographer Kim Westerskov’s eight-day assignment at Mayor Island. “Allan Jones had seen it once before, while working on the Department of Conservation underwater survey,” said Kim. “He thought he knew where it was, but on our first dive on the wreck we couldn’t find it. […]...
Clean and cheap electric cars are the commuting vehicles of the future, says 84-year-old Sir Len Southward, climbing on to the swivel seat of an electric car in the Southward Car Museum. Housed in a grey, spreadeagled building just off State Highway One at Paraparaumu, Wellington, Southward Car Museum is a permanent testimony to his lifelong […]...
This is the season of the Scorpion, the most dramatic of all the constellations. Seen by the early Chinese as part of the Blue Dragon, the happy omen of spring, Scorpius rising lies along the horizon like a huge taniwha writhing across the hills. At the same time Orion sets in the west; no longer the […]...
