#manawatu — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #manawatu, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@norightturnnz/117130329999369192
"Like the One Plan itself, its the result of a careful process of consultation and consensus-building, and has been approved by the Environment Court. It should be becoming active any time soon. But it won't ...Twenty years of democratic action and tens of millions of dollars in planning costs and legal fees gone, because one man ... never liked the outcome, and decided to abuse his ministerial position to put his thumb on the scale, outside the normal process. "
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Rugby Colts – Manawatu v Horowhenua, 1960-09
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published. No captioning information was provided in the publication.
Palmerston North City Library via DigitalNZ -
Not only did we find ourselves back in NZ, but back in a van—albeit for a short tour in North Island this time.
👀 More? See https://curiositydrive.org/2026/01/24/north-island-down-the-middle/
#auckland #camperVan #coromandel #hiking #manawatu #motorhome #nature #newZealand #nomad #northland #roadTrip #rv #travel #vanLife #waikato #wairarapa #wellington
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In Feb 2023 we were working our way north from the Wairarapa into the eastern Manawatū when Cyclone Gabrielle came barrelling down the East Coast. We bailed on visiting Mangatiti Falls, instead bolting through the gap between the Tararua & Ruahine ranges to relative safety deep in the Whanganui. Three years later, Mangatiti Falls on the Aohanga River can still be accessed with permission via private farmland on Coast Rd, Pongaroa. It’s a 1h winding drive in from SH2 just south of Mangatainoka, although sealed & in good condition. Phone farm owners Debbie & Marty in advance to arrange your visit; you’ll sign a waiver at the farmhouse, as this is a working stock farm (📷1). Indeed, we were mobbed by curious cattle & chose to yield ground (given a prior head-butting incident with a young bull), so viewed the falls from a distance (📷2&3)—but it is possible to scramble down into their basin. There’s a freedom camp not 1km from the farm (Four Mile Bush Reserve).
With SH2 between Gisborne & Whakatāne already closed due to slips (campers were airlifted out!) & 🔴 red rain warnings for East Cape with its vulnerable coastal road, we took the same escape route as 3 years ago. With the Ruahine Range now on our starboard flank, we stopped for lunch at Stormy Point Lookout—overlooking one of the best-preserved sequences of river terraces in the world (📷4).
🇳🇿#newZealand #nz #manawatu 🚀#travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife
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Also on Renfrew Rd, Rangiwahia, is the Ian McKean Pinetum, a 14ha family farm planted with one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest collections of conifers—300 species & 90 pines—including the rarest, largest, tallest & oldest varieties (📷1). You could visit purely for views to the cone of Mount Ruapehu if tree cones aren’t your thing (📷2).
Mangahuia Wetlands on Main South Rd, Rangiwahia, are the result of Bourke’s Dam est. 1997. 🅿️ is roadside but due to an adverse camber we walked back 500m. Clearly a project with potential, it had a somewhat neglected feel (📷3). Black swan were present & we were aggressively stalked by free-range chickens, one of whom was especially large with a high percentage of velociraptor DNA (📷4)!
Limestone Creek Reserve Glow Worm Caves are E of Āpiti; roadside 🅿️/ turning wasn’t ideal for a 7m van. This trail on private property wasn’t maintained & lacked waypoints; it involves several creek crossings. B slipped descending a muddy bank & ended up lying in the creek. Both phone & camera were submerged & the latter is out of action (bugger; no more bird pictures). We bailed after further trail finding woes & can’t recommend visiting.
Entry to all three sites is free.
🇳🇿#newZealand #nz #manawatu 🚀#travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife
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We’re fond of Rangiwahia in northern Manawatū: this small farming community has a great park-over property (POP) with excellent amenities & local info. Rangiwahia Hut Track in the Ruahine Forest Park was on our list but missed last visit, due to bad weather. It begins at Renfrew Rd end (drive through a couple of stock gates) & climbs 4.2km/ 2h to Rangiwahia Hut, offering clear views to Mount Ruapehu—almost 80km distant—even from the lower end (📷1). About 1.5km in, the hillside is predominantly endemic Pseudowintera colorata | mountain horopito | NZ pepper tree, a “pioneer plant” recognisable by red/ purple staining of leaf edges caused by anthocyanin pigments; polygodial is the chemical responsible for its peppery taste & behind Māori medicinal uses (antibacterial, antifungal & anti-inflammatory). Libocedrus bidwillii | pāhautea | mountain cedar, with reddish “flaky pastry” bark, is a threatened endemic readily observed here (📷2); as a resinous hardwood, its grey trunks (known as “snags” or “mountain ghosts”) remain standing for some time after death—also well seen on the track. We encountered several other endemics trackside, incld. the broad-leaved Cordyline indivisa | mountain cabbage tree (📷3); Celmisia spectabilis | cotton daisy; & Euphrasia cuneata | North Island eyebright. Situated above the tree line & set at the edge of a tussock landscape, the present DOC hut at 1327m elevation on the Whanahuia Range (an outlying ridge of the greywacke Ruahine Range) replaces a shepherd’s hut linked to a ski slope established here in the 1930s (📷4). Out & back incld. lunch at the hut took us 4.5h.
🇳🇿#newZealand #nz #manawatu 🚀#travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🥾#hiking
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Departing from pitch in a grey & damp Taupō we made use of a laundrette & observed the latest in gumboot fashion in Taihape before deviating E from SH1 onto the Manawatū Scenic Route—a winding drive through rugged farming country (📷1). We stopped to overlook the Ruahine Dress Circle, a papa formation on the Mangawharariki Stream, so named because it reminded early settlers of an opera house fixture (📷2). The small reserve here features a swimming hole at the base of a horse-tail waterfall (📷3). Just upstream layers of papa (“earth” in Maori, referring to soft blue-grey mudstone) have eroded differentially: undermining has resulted in a partially suspended section of faux stream bed (📷4).
🇳🇿#newZealand #nz #manawatu 🚀#travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife
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Hands Around #Palmerston_North #Hospital
Sunday, 30 March 2025 - 13:00Peaceful demonstration (not blocking access) organised by Patient Voice #Aotearoa in support of the staff and in an attempt to get the Government to support #Manawatu #health services better. "Understaffing is happening in the following areas: psychiatry, radiology, ENT, rheumatology, endoscopy, cardiology and oncology."
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A pair of “Kiwi as” 🪧 signs. #Himatangi Beach is an official road so usual rules apply, but here’s the additional signage indicating sand compactness, inspired by the 🔥 risk needle. #Foxton is on the #Manawatū River; the riverside path had been recently inundated, thus was muddy. Hence this polite notice at a local shop!
🚐 #VanLife #Motorhome #CamperVan #RV #Travel #RoadTrip #Nomad
🤔 #Curiosity 🌲 #Rewilding 🧭 #Exploring ❤️ #Wellbeing
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Hey #Manawatu farmers, you're about to both lose, and then get, a lot of topsoil #ClimateChange
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A couple of roadside shots from the Peep-o-Day Route scenic drive through #Manawatū countryside; we felt saddened to see the landscape denuded of forest & large tracts seemingly abandoned. Third pic is from Stormy Point Lookout on the Stormy Point Route; the 4th further along the same route at Putai Ngahere Domain (Vinegar Hill).
🚐 #VanLife #Motorhome #CamperVan #RV #Travel #RoadTrip #Nomad
🤔 #Curiosity 🌲 #Rewilding 🧭 #Exploring ❤️ #Wellbeing
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Te Āpiti - #Manawatū Gorge Tawa Loop Walk (4.1km/ 2h) a bit underwhelming compared to description, but did include a sculpture of Whātonga (a Māori warrior) & a glimpse of the gorge itself. Some nice countryside on the Manawatū Scenic Route (brown koru signs), but no stopping bays from which to admire it. Sunset in Rangiwahia to end the day.
🚐 #VanLife #Motorhome #CamperVan #RV #Travel #RoadTrip #Nomad
🤔 #Curiosity 🌲 #Rewilding 🧭 #Exploring ❤️ #Wellbeing
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Awesome turnout to the PN Knights Lightsaber meet up. 24 Jedi & Sith in all. I should have worn the Jedi garb but given I got very hot dueling, I’m kinda glad I didn’t. By daughters partner is getting quite good with his dulling too.
There’s also a new fan film in the works which should be a lot of fun.
#Jedi #Sith #Lightsabers #PNKnights #NZLightsaberGuild #StarWars #Palmy #PalmerstonNorth #Manawatu
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I've lived and biked around Palmy for a long time - frequently making jokes about a head wind both ways to and from Massey or anywhere. I borrowed a friend's ebike so I could enjoy an outing with my uncle who is not quite 80, who is a frequent ebiker all around Tāmaki-makau-rau. There was wind but it was no problem, so much fun!
#ebike
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So grateful for this view of the Tararua range from our backyard. It never gets old #Manawatū #sunset #landscape