How the cullers once lived

April 2015

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April 2015

The restored tent camp. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Shaun Barnett attends the opening of a restored tent camp in Kahurangi’s Cobb Valley Smoke drifted across the valley from a campfire made from river stones. Bellbirds sang, the river burbled, and people poured themselves generous mugs of billy tea. Camp oven scones emerged and, smothered in butter and jam, were eaten hot. It might […]
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