Taonga from the beaches of Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Owenga, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

In which we walk the shores of this little island.

Tired. Grateful. Nourished. Hopeful. 

Haere ra, 2016. 

Owenga, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

The glitter of sunlight on roughened water, the glory of the stars, the innocence of morning, the smell of the sea in harbors, the feathery blur and smoky buddings of young boughs, and something there that comes and goes and never can be captured, the thorn of spring the sharp and tongueless cry - these things will always be the same.

Thomas Wolfe - You Can't Go Home Again

Tauhou (Silvereye), Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

"Under the greenwood tree / Who loves to lie with me

And tune his merry note / Unto the sweet bird's throat

Come hither, come hither, come hither

Here he shall see / No enemy

But winter and rough weather"

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Waitangi West, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Evening Redness: Whangamarino, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Waitangi Beach, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Here I came to the very edge, where nothing at all needs saying

everything is absorbed through weather and the sea

and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered,

and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave

and every day on the balcony of the sea,

wings open, fire is born

and everything is blue again like morning.

Pablo Neruda

Port Hutt, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Road to Port Hutt, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Starling, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Ocean Mail Beach, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)

Wharekauri, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)