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| Entrance to Whakatane harbourPhotographer: Daren Grover & Abbie ReynoldsFrom: East cape at Easter Nikon Corporation » Nikon D80 TB Code: [photo=1167427] Entrance to Whakatane harbourSnapped while trying to find a curry-house for dinner. The statue on the rock commemorates Wairaka who with the other women, had been left in the waka (canoe) that started to drift while the men went ashore. In defiance of tapu (prohibition) she grabbed a paddle and yelled ‘Me whakatane au i ahau nei!’ (I must act like a man!) and saved the vessel. |
