Spent every Friday ND Sunday coasting this gorge. After school mum would pick me up from school (Gisborne) then 8hrs drive to Tauranga, head back with dad to gizzy on Sunday arvo in the rotation back to boarding school. Thank you for bringing an ol dog some long lost memories. Churr🤙
Thanks Dudley! That brought back memories; at one point of my employment I used to travel the complete circuit SH 35 around to Opotiki then back to Gisborne every fortnight, paying the road workers employed on the road construction.
My English grandfather and his brother took up a block here, up the Wairata stream, in 1909. It was heartbreaking, backbreaking work. They went to Gallipoli, with several of the boys from the Gorge; only my grandfather returned. My grandmother, the nurse who took care of him, came out from nursing in Malta to marry him and they farmed until they walked off the land until 1927. The babies were born in Opotiki, but were carried home slung over the saddle of their mother's horse, balanced by a bag of sugar. They were remarkable people, the settlers of the Gorge.
Spent every Friday ND Sunday coasting this gorge. After school mum would pick me up from school (Gisborne) then 8hrs drive to Tauranga, head back with dad to gizzy on Sunday arvo in the rotation back to boarding school. Thank you for bringing an ol dog some long lost memories.
Churr🤙
Many thanks from the UK.
Thanks Dudley! That brought back memories; at one point of my employment I used to travel the complete circuit SH 35 around to Opotiki then back to Gisborne every fortnight, paying the road workers employed on the road construction.
Keep the videos coming please
Stunning!
My English grandfather and his brother took up a block here, up the Wairata stream, in 1909. It was heartbreaking, backbreaking work. They went to Gallipoli, with several of the boys from the Gorge; only my grandfather returned. My grandmother, the nurse who took care of him, came out from nursing in Malta to marry him and they farmed until they walked off the land until 1927. The babies were born in Opotiki, but were carried home slung over the saddle of their mother's horse, balanced by a bag of sugar. They were remarkable people, the settlers of the Gorge.
Thats an awesome story