Esplanade Inner News Today

After a karakia (prayer) that acknowledges many of the original waka that sailed into Tūranga nui ā Kiwa (Gisborne), we are under way. The crew are local and on our three-hour sunset journey, we hear the stories and history of Gisborne’s tangata whenua, as we sail across the harbour towards the landmark that references the name of the Endeavour’s ship-boy, Young Nick’s Head. BROOK SABIN/Stuff Gisborne’s waka hourua, Tairāwhiti. Before that moniker, the headland was Te Kurī-a-Pāo...