Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(
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
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.
Statue of Young Nick
MONUMENT
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
OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP
nearby, erected on a globe etched with his roaming
routes.
Gisborne Botanic Gardens
GARDENS
OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.gdc.govt.nz/botanical-gardens
; Aberdeen Rd; 24hr)
The town gardens are sit-
ting pretty beside the Taruheru River - a beaut spot for a picnic. Wiggle through the NZ
native
Bushland Walkway
.
Te Tauihu Turanga Whakamana
MONUMENT
(The Canoe Prow; cnr Gladstone Rd & Customhouse St)
Like a giant sundial, Te Tauihu Tur-
anga Whakamana is a large modern sculpture in the shape of a
tauihu
(canoe prow) that
celebrates early Maori explorers.
East Coast Museum
of Technology
MUSEUM
(ECMOT;
www.ecmot.org.nz
; SH2, Makaraka; adult/child $5/2; 10am-4pm Mon-Sat, 1-4pm Sun)
Think analogue, rather than digital; old age rather than space age. About 5km west of the
town centre, this improbable medley of farm equipment, fire engines and sundry appli-
