the pipe in background

Back Pipes in the Bay

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July 22nd 2005
You'd never guess it was the middle of winter in Whakatane. I took my boys and niece down to the infamous :Pipe" where myself and a few older mischief cousins and their friends would runaway to from all the chores of farm life and boring black and whte television. The pipe runs over an inlet into the main Whakatane river and before I was born my mother and her brothers would have to ride a horse ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more