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love yr pronounciation of the maori place names around our town ..great vids thanks!

I love how you included commentary about the history of the track and area as well! Feels like a school trip 💙

My understanding where the name Wainuiomata came from. After Teraparaha invaded Lower Hutt and the women and children fled over the hill into wainuiomata where they were found weeping. The translation is Tears of Mata,who was a Maori woman.

As a young teen in the mid 60s I visited my older married sister who lived in Ngongataha, made friends very quickly, it was the first time I ever drove a car (1950 Ford Prefect) I was 14 and even had my first romantic kiss there… yuk lol. There were places that tourists could go called Rainbow Springs and Fairy Springs where you could play with tame trout, some locals had a back yard with a small hot spring which some converted to cook food from the naturally heated volcanic underground, others built or constructed a private mineral bathing pool, very therapeutic, there was no place like it. Others my age took me to places where we could catch fish, mainly large Trout, was an amazing experience will never forget it.

The coldest I have EVER been in my life was when I stayed at a friend's place near the river. It was winter and misty and the cold just seeped into your bones, I couldn't get warm.

You idiots that road was closed to both vehicles and push bikes including foot traffic for safety reasons including the gorge walk.

I live in Patea 🙂 I'm happy that you enjoyed your time up at the Dam and sharing your hoilday exspearance at the dam. I hope you get a chance to return to Patea and see how much has change since your last visit. Plus Patea now got a 5km walkway for you and your family to enjoy whn you go on your walk about.

Such a cool video 👍

Great Video guys, thanks for coming to Battle Hill, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. Ranger Gary (the old ranger...apparently not the hot young one🤣)

Love your videoes you give some great history points which I like 😊

Very cool thank you

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SO, who made it??? Why are they to scared to look at its origin???? WOULD it be that they would lose their creditability....no more free cash?.

No ancient civilization as the conspiracy theorists like to push with the Kaimanawa wall BS 😅

cool video! Next time you should have a look at the cop shop near the museum.

I have said goodbye to a few family members at Saint Marks and have many family members at Claireville Cemetery. Southend school was my school and the little house next to it was my grandmothers.

Good to see the old road again, my Great Grandfather helped build the original road and railway and my Grandfather helped to widen the road in later years. My Great Grandfather was also the last toll operator for the Ballance end of the gorge, he was also there before Woodville even existed.

seems SO MUCH FUN !!!!

Good to see u guys in Wellington enjoying

Thanks so much for the videos, I love finding out more about the places you go to!

good on you for doing this, the funny thing is that once the new road is finished the old road will become a cycle track.

He tohu whakamau mahara he tohu whakamau mahara ki te tono maha i ngaro i roto o Waitangi kāti whenua i rere tukituki iho mai te wai-ā-moe tukua mā ngā hau āwhiowhio ki kōruarua kautau hai mihi hai tangi-haere oti atu ra Kāi te whatu manawa kautau e iri ana Englsih (not perfect) A magical sign of recollection is a memorable sign of the mass appeal lost in the country's water-flowing water from the water-free through the swirling winds to the 1980s to greet it as a sound-out Cara the heart-wrenching eye hanging

Great video team, keep up the great work. Plenty of history there.

I remember the go cart track at Pauatahanui when I was younger, it was known as Duck Creek. At Battle Hill there was a grassy open area by the stream, at the north end of the reserve where my dad's work would have their kids christmas party. We'd play games and Father Christmas would come with presents.

Great Video Guys, an area i know quite well but based on your video I learned lots, thanks for sharing

u didint thats feilding where i am!!!!!!!

Beautiful. Kia ora from Sydney..

I thought I could see some faces on the cliff's as well.. but absolutely beautiful place will be back there again!

R.I.P Ian Lewis, 1953-2017. R.I.P Ketia Tahana, 1953-2017.

Really stupid thing you did walking on the tracks and the bridge and that "no trespassing" sign is there for a reason and not a decoration. If a train was coming and had to apply emergency braking while on the bridge would put huge amounts of strain on the bridge. If you think it's ok to walk along railway lines then I suggest you go talk to a train driver that has had to go through the unfortunate event of hitting and killing someone that was doing the same stupid thing you just did.

Living the dream, thanks for sharing as always <3

Such a lovely old soul you are. A calming & fun commentary thats a pleasure to listen to.

Great informative video guys.

Having grown up there, this was good to watch, Thank You

That's a great place to wander isn't it

That was a bit of a gnarly track!

And now I want some nachos 😁

I did that walk with friends in March last year, they're a hidden treasure aren't they

❤❤ thanks for taking the time to record your exploration of Tauranga

Just before I moved to Australia in 1989 I seem to recall the opening of a Deer Freezing works.Is it still open?AAlso is the Takapau freezing works still open?

It's nice being out in the bush!

Thanks for the walk through the tunnel. Looks the same as it did when we used to go exploring as kids in the late 50's

Looks like the tunnel is through limestone 😮

I took my visually impaired friend to the OngaOnga historic village. It was closed then too. She enjoyed it as she still had a little bit of sight. Pukeora hill was somewhere I remembered when I was a child as I'm sure the main road then was right at the bottom of the hill

Thanks for the video. And thank you for the little bits of history too

Thanks for the video of the town and shearing the history. We will be moving to Central Hawkes Bay in a few weeks. All the way from South Africa

great vid... i enjoyed much,.. i have been to Taupo 5 or 6 times in the last 40 years ... and been road works every time lol,.. coming back again from Sydney in 10 weeks,... cant wait,...

Hey i go to petone now and then

Was your ankle OK climbing up and down the hill?

I love the blossoms (and trees) so much at the Esplanade in Palmy and at Massey. I’m the American from Chicago who loves your videos and story telling so much. And when I’d come to visit a friend in Wangas and Palmy back in the early 2000s it’s one of the places that made the 30 hour trip worth it 😊 thanks to you and Robert for the all the lovely trips down memory lane.