Waves of heat and dust, doused by steaming rain, signify not just a week of summer in Whangarei but the making of another successful Sculpture Symposium on the Hatea River's grassed shoulder.
The fifth symposium of its kind is under way at Whangarei's Town Basin, with sculptors from all around New Zealand and some from overseas shaping the "Migration" theme from lumps of stone, steel and wood.
The public event always attracts visitors, with its location on the Hatea loop walk, commonly used by walkers, runners and family groups, adding considerably to the passing traffic this year.
The organisers, Creative Northland, describe the theme of migration as relating to "intrinsically connected elements, a sense of place and sense of belonging - a movement."
