Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
you could easily lose a day wandering around the 25km of themed tracks in this pine-
scented paradise. It's well signposted, 35km northwest of Gisborne. There's also accom-
modation (
Click here
)
here.
MARKET
Gisborne Farmers Market
(
www.gisbornefarmersmarket.co.nz
;
cnr Stout & Fitzherbert Sts; 9.30am-12.30pm Sat)
Stock up on fresh
fruit, macadamia nuts (and macadamia nut paste!), smallgoods, honey, herbs, coffee,
wine, bread, pastries, fish, cheese…all of it locally grown or procured.
Cook Monument
At the foot of Titirangi Park is the spot where Cook first got NZ dirt on his boots. Little
more than a patch of lawn with a grim obelisk, the scrappy site was also the landing point
of the
Horouta waka
. Join the sweaty joggers on the steep track up Kaiti Hill, which starts
near the monument.
MONUMENT
Statue of Young Nick
MAP
MONUMENT
GOOGLE MAP
There's no let-up in Gisborne's
Endeavour
endeavours: in the riverside park is a dynamic
statue of Nicholas Young, Cook's cabin boy, whose eagle eyes were the first to spot NZ
(the white cliffs at Young Nick's Head). There's another
Captain Cook statue
MAP
GOOGLE MAP
nearby, erected on a globe etched with his roaming routes.
Gisborne Botanic Gardens
MAP
GARDENS
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.gdc.govt.nz/botanical-gardens
;
Aberdeen Rd; 24hr)
The town gardens are sitting pretty
beside the Taruheru River - a beaut spot for a picnic. Wiggle through the NZ native
Bush-
land Walkway
.
MONUMENT
Te Tauihu Turanga Whakamana
(The Canoe Prow; cnr Gladstone Rd & Customhouse St)
Like a giant sundial, Te Tauihu Turanga
Whakamana is a large modern sculpture in the shape of a
tauihu
(canoe prow) that celeb-
rates early Maori explorers.
