Taihape: Gumboot Capital of New Zealand - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – BackpackerGuide.NZ
Day 64: Today we are throwing gumboots in Taihape: the gumboot capital of New Zealand in its famous Taihape Gumboot Throwing Lane! We also climb Mt Stewart.
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Today we are in the wonderful town of Taihape in New Zealand! It’s right in the middle of State High 1 and it’s also the Gumboot Capital of New Zealand! In today’s episode, we find out exactly what that means....
After a morning in the Rust Nail Backpackers in Taihape, we head down to the famous Taihape Gumboot Throwing Lane for our very own gumboot throwing competition! The Taihape Gumboot Throwing Lane is so the locals can practice for their gumboot day every year with competitions and more!
After throwing way too many muddy gumboots, we then head to the giant gumboot sculpture at the entrance of Taihape. Not only because, well, it’s an awesome giant gumboot in Taihape, but because it is also the entrance to a walk up Mt Stewart. The walk has lots of information about native trees on the way up Mt Stewart in Taihape, then we reach the top to a viewing platform opverlooking Taihape and the surrounding countryside.
So that is a day in Taihape. What do you think of the Gumboot Capital of New Zealand? Do you think it’s worth a pit stop?
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Taihape, gumboot capital - Roadside Stories
Gumboots -- black rubber Wellington boots -- were celebrated by satirist John Clarke in his comic persona as laconic farmer Fred Dagg, who sang the boots' praises in the 1970s. In the 1980s, suffering from job losses and a rural economic downturn, the small town of Taihape rebranded itself as the world's gumboot capital. Today it still hosts an annual Gumboot Day.
Taihape district,
Taihape gumboot,
Rural clothing: hats, footwear and oilskins,
Fred Dagg,
Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives, Sound files may not be reused without permission from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives (Reference number 06/095/318).
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Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit
Dunedin's bards - Roadside Stories
Scottish poet Robbie Burns is remembered by a statue in Dunedin -- but the city has also been home to many other bards, including Thomas Bracken, who composed the words to New Zealand's national anthem, and the counter-culture poet James K. Baxter. A host of latter-day musical bards are responsible for the 'Dunedin sound' -- jangly guitars and thoughtful lyrics, mostly associated with alternative music label Flying Nun.
Otago region: art, writing and music,
Dunedin,
The Flying Nun label,
New Zealand's national anthems,
James Keir Baxter,
Landfall magazine,
Album covers reproduced courtesy of Flying Nun Records
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Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit
Christchurch under siege - Roadside Stories
New Zealand's most English city, Christchurch was hit by devastating earthquakes in September 2010 and February and June 2011. In the February quake 185 people died. Over a quarter of the city centre's buildings - many of them historic - were condemned, and the statue of city founder John Robert Godley was toppled.
Christchurch,
The shaky isles: Canterbury & other earthquakes,
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake,
Earthquakes,
John Robert Godley,
Canterbury region: geology,
Images of earthquake damage courtesy of Ross Becker.
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Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit
Art deco Napier, New Zealand (buildings, Pania, museum and aquarium)
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This video is about Napier, an east coast port town of North Island Zealand and is famous for it's unique 1930s style architecture. Napier is New Zealand's 9th largest urban centre with 64,000 people.
In 1931 there was a devastating earthquake in the Napier area, destroying the buildings and so the city had to start over again. The art deco buildings line the streets making the city very popular to visit. The style art deco originated in the 1920s and can be characterised with sleek, simple, geometric and stylised design, sometimes with small relief decorative panels such as flowers.
The seaside has some very special locations. There is an interesting art deco sound shell which was built in 1935. Near by is the Pania of the Reef bronze statue which was made in 1954. The statue is based on a Maori story about Pania, a wahine maiden from the Pacific Ocean who captured the heart of a Maori cheif called Karitoki. Pania was said to marry Karitoki. Pania would hear the sirens calling her from her home in the sea, so each morning she would return to the salty water and return to the land at night. Later Karitoki and Pania had a son called Moremore. Karitoki was very worried that Pania would return to the sea with their son and he tried his best to keep her on land, however Pania could not resist and she and her son returned to the sea, never to return. The story ends with the theory that Moremore became a taniwhau, gaurdian of the sea in the shape of a shark and Pania became the reef in the bay around Napier. Across the road from Pania of the reef is the Hawkes Bay Museum, there is a lovely display which show the history, nature and cultures of the area.
Just south from the Napier Soundshell is the National Aquarium of New Zealand which was opened in 1976 and has a range of wildlife from New Zealand and around the world.
Some interesting websites about Napier:
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Oh By Jingo
By All Star Trio
Dreamer
By DivKid
Heavenly
By Aakash Gandhi
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Note that this recording was made before the 2011 Rugby World Cup which was also won by the All Blacks at Eden Park when they beat France 8-7 in the final.
Film -- the third test, 1981 Springbok tour,
Flour bomb test ends Springbok tour,
Playing England -- New Zealand cricket,
Cabbage tree swamp,
Protesters and rugby fans in conflict,
Auckland region: sports and leisure,
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Pāpāwai, the Māori capital - Roadside Stories
In the late 19th century Pāpāwai marae, outside Greytown, was the focus of the Kotahitanga -- the Māori parliament movement, which sought to unify Māori tribes. With 3,000 residents, Pāpāwai was known as 'the Māori capital'.
Pāpāwai marae,
Pāpāwai Pā, 1897,
Hamuera Tamahau Mahupuku,
Ngāti Kahungunu,
19th-century Māori organisations,
Niniwa Heremaia,
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Taonga puoro courtesy of Richard Nunns.
Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit
The changing fortunes of Kaiapohia - Roadside Stories
Kaiapohia was the great pā (fortified settlement) of the Ngāi Tahu tribe, and a base from which the tribe spread out and came to dominate most of the South Island. But in a disastrous conflict with North Island tribe Ngāti Toa, most of the residents of Kaiapohia were killed and the settlement was abandoned. Today Ngāi Tahu are flourishing once again.
Kaiapoi pā,
Kaiapoi district,
Ngāi Tahu,
Te Rauparaha,
Te Pehi Kupe,
The Ngai Tahu claim,
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Taonga puoro courtesy of Richard Nunns.
Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit
Dan Dagg
The first attempt for Film Club, Exams by Fred Dagg/ John Clarke from the album The Taihape Years
Te Kuiti - Shearing Capital of the World - Jump On John
The statue in Te Kuiti was pretty darn impressive