First we had our morning tea under the oldest Pohutukawa tree in New Zealand!
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After that we walked down the trail to the flagpole and saw where Captain Butler had his shop. |
From here we could look across to Mangonui. We could see the church, the wharf, our school, the fish and chip shop and lots of boats.
After that we went down to the museum and Captain Butler's House. We saw a boat, whale bones, old guns and harpoons and pictures of whaling from the olden days. It was very interesting.
Our final activity was walking up to the pa site. We had seen a model of the pa in the museum. There was another huge old tree up at the pa site that we all wanted to climb up!
Before we got back on the bus we saw where Captain Butler and some of his family are buried.
We had a wonderful day! We hope we can visit again one day.
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