Manukau Harbour

You can see him.

So we share a lot of those, a lot of those teachings with them, and I remember we were going for a hike down to the Manukau Harbour or down past Karikari.

It was hot.

Uh, the boys had their baggy pants on and, you know, we were cruising down there.

The high cost is due to the fact that it was being developed through highly developed industrial land.

There's a bit of reclamation that had to happen in the Manukau Harbour, and there was bridging work as well, but still $327 million a kilometre.

The Belfast to Pegasus Road, $73 million a kilometre.

Mills Road, that's going to be really expensive as well.

I'll give an overview and share my experience along with the highlights and some practical advice.

The Waikowhai Walkway follows part of the northern shoreline of the Manukau Harbour from Onehunga west to Linfield Cove.

It's about ten kilometers long, so turning it into an out and back to double the length is a decent full day tramp.

The route combines scenic foreshore walking with inland reserve bush tracks.

It's a great spot.

From here I return the way I came back to the car.

In terms of highlights, the Waikowhai Walkway has wonderful views across Manukau Harbour.

There's a nice mix of urban and natural scenery.

And two sleeps T-minus two sleeps till the dread dawn.

So I ride my boat out in the Manukau Harbour 'cause she talks to me.

You know how for a thousand years or more you've found me.

She'll slow down from the Kaukau to the Maikai tree.

Um, and it was hon- honestly, a lot of it, um, was off the back of me doing this, like, little random TikTok video [laughs] like, which I don't know, like the power of the internet, you know.

Like sometimes it's evil, and sometimes it can be good, somet- like it, you know, kinda good.

But, um, yeah, just, it was just a video of me playing the waiata, um, with my pu- taonga, with my putorino in front of the Manukau Harbour, where we were getting some of the field recordings

recordingsAnd it was just through that, and I don't know what it was, um, maybe it was the con- maybe it was just me, them, people hearing the context of this kinda indie song with reo Māori, with a Māori fella in front of a, like, moana, wearing Hunting & Fishing.

on.

Yeah, so this is a bone of a swan that was culled out in the Manukau Harbour.

Wow.

And we just kind of like, one of the bros, he collected all the wings because he was like, you know, what a waste to just leave them rotting in the harbour.