Hard bastards holiday

October 2015

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October 2015

Volunteers walk along - and through - the Tauranga River to reach the road end. Photo: Kyle Jeffery
Hauling heavy packs and killing stoats in remote Te Urewera is not your run of the mill holiday, discovers Nathan Pipenberg We were deep in the heart of Te Urewera rainforest, carefully threading our way down an exposed slip to the Tauranga River. From there, our four-person team would wade upstream for three kilometres to […]

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