Whale Watch Kaikōura
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Whale Watch Kaikōura is an ecotourism company based in Kaikōura, a small town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The company offers marine wildlife tours focussing on sperm whales a
Whale watching boat Te Ao Marama
New Whale Watch Kaikōura boats, April 2022
Destination Kaikoura 513966 sperm whale diving
Destination Kaikoura 513963 tiaki 7
Takahanga Marae
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Takahanga Marae is a marae of the Ngāti Kuri hapū of Ngāi Tahu in Kaikōura, in the South Island of New Zealand. The marae was built in the 1980s on the site of a historic pā that existed prior to Euro
Whale Watch Kaikōura
…and taking 35,000 to 40,000 visitors a year out to see the whales. Profits from the business helped the Ngāti Kuri hapū to fund the construction of Takahanga Marae on an ancestral site overlooking Kaikōura. During a visit to Kaikōura in March 1993, the British zoologist and writer Mark Cawardine made the observation…
Takahanga Marae in 2016
Patsy Reddy at the marae being welcomed with a hongi
The wharekai Te Poha a Tohu Raumati