Kaikoura, the town where the mountains meet the sea on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island has attained a well-deserved reputation for eco-tourism.
Tua Pittman rides the tiller with stern command. Steering the Marumaru Atua northwards into the night, he scopes the greying horizon like it’s a familiar friend. As one of the few contemporary Master Navigators trained in the ancient ways of sailing by stars, moon, ocean currents and migrating birds, on this short voyage from Rarotonga towards Aitutaki, Pittman is recreating a past almost forgot to modern travellers.
The NT News, Darwin’s daily tabloid newspaper, is so outrageously hokey that it could be read as an alternative comedy script instead of a fact sheet.
While soulless supermarkets expand across America, turning food shopping into task management, farmers’ markets put the soul back into eating well.