Learning and Discovery

Pacific People

New Zealand is a pacific island nation. Auckland city has the llargest Polynesian population of the South Pacific.

Internet Blues

Yes, it's true! We have the worst Internet in the world! But there is a reason for it as you have already discovered on your way here! 

New Zealand is quite simply at the end of the line! The arteries of the internet run through undersea cables through the world’s oceans. New Zealand, being an under populated country far from the larger continents, gets most of its internet from Australia, who gets its internet via Asia. Essentially, New Zealand is the end of the internet line.

Frank Josef Public Conveinances

Learning how to operate the automatic toilets was voted a Learning and Discovery Experience. No one realised that the building was sited on a fault line until later!

How to be a chief

Not an easy challenge but Rangatira Rob took on the mantle with aplomb and was voted the best whaikorero and the ugliest pukana in 11 years! 

Kiwis korero Maori

This became a teaching experience as the Group encouraged kiwis to say Kia Ora to us! 

Apple Pies

We discovered the secret ingredient of Pete's Apple Pies and learned more about the life and times of the deer industry in New Zealand.

The Worlds Second Fastest Indian

Shed Men are the backbone of the Kiwi Do It Yourself philosophy. Most red blooded Kiwi males are kept in sheds in their backyard. 

Here the Kiwi Male rules supreme. He fixes things and invents things. 

In Reefton we met a shed man supreme who lives in a house he bought for $275.00. This guy raced against the worlds fastest Indian, Burt Munroe whose speed record at Bonneville still stands.