Always one of Waitangi Day’s – if not Northland’s – greatest spectacles, yesterday’s waka parade off Tii Beach featured nine waka ranging from doubled-hulled waka tangata [people’s canoes] to the great waka taua [war canoe] Ngātokimatawhaorua, which requires at least 80 paddlers to propel its 35-metre fully carved hull.
Waitangi Day 2023: Waka parade dazzles
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