On this page…
Photo gallery 1: Bedrooms at Hone Heke Lodge (scroll down to view)
Photo gallery 2: Facilities at Hone Heke Lodge (scroll down to view)
Photo gallery 3: Bay of Islands photos (scroll down to view)
Photo gallery 4: Maori Chief Hone Heke photos (scroll down to view)
1. Bedrooms at Hone Heke Lodge…
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- Double ensuite motel room.
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- Double ensuite motel room.
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- Ensuite shower in double ensuite motel room.
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- Private double room. Single bunk above, double bed below.
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- Sunny sitting area at the end of a dorm room.
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- Dorm room in daylight.
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- Dorm room at dusk.
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- Dorm room in daylight.
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- Dorm room at dusk.
2. Facilities at Hone Heke Lodge…
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- Looking across the car park to the accommodation blocks
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- Motel rooms on the left, recreation and TV rooms on the right.
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- Te Araroa walkers ready to go
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- Guests playing football in the car park
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- A peaceful spot near the entrance
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- Victoria at reception
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- Reception area
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- TV Room
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- Common room
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- A graduation in the common room
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- Guests cooking in the communal kitchen
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- Communal kitchen area
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- Gas hobs in covered courtyard area
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- Cooking in the covered courtyard area
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- Cooking in the covered courtyard area
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- Dinner time is fun time!
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- Pizza lunch in covered courtyard
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- Dinner in the covered area
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- Band playing at Hone Heke Lodge
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- Exterior view of covered courtyard at dusk
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- Exterior view of covered courtyard at dusk
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- Courtyard dining area before the evening rush
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- Courtyard dining area before the evening rush
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- Getting busier in the courtyard dining area
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- Guests enjoying pool
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- The pool table is always popular
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- Covered courtyard area showing log burner, dining tables, gas hobs and pool table
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- Close-up of the log burner in the covered courtyard area
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- Pre-dinner drinks at our cuisine-of-the-world pot luck dinner.
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- Some recent Kerikeri backpacker guests
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- Making sushi
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- Watching World Cup football one morning.
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- Outdoor smoking area
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- Our expansive lawns and native bush
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- Entrance to Hone Heke Lodge
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- Native Trees at Hone Heke Lodge
3. Bay of Islands photos…
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- Your hosts David & Victoria and their children with the stunning Bay of Islands coastline behind them.
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- Kerikeri inlet with the Stone Store on the left.
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- Dave with kids at lookout over Kerikeri inlet.
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- Kerikeri river mouth with Stone Store on left, and Mission Station on right.
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- The Stone Store at Kerikeri was built in 1835, making it the oldest stone building in New Zealand.
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- Our kids on the lawn in front of Kerikeri Mission Station.
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- Kerikeri Mission Station, oldest wooden building in New Zealand.
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- Kerikeri Mission Station viewed from the rear.
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- Kerikeri Mission Station was built in 1822, making it the oldest wooden building in New Zealand.
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- Kerikeri Mission Station was called Kemp House for 160 years but changed its name in the 1990s. This early sign remains.
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- David, Victoria & kids during a Waitangi Māori “experience”!
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- A waka (Māori war canoe) at Waitangi.
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- Paihia beach in the Bay of Islands.
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- Waitangi Beach.
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- Marsden Cross beach in the Bay of Islands.
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- The famous Bay of Islands “Cream Trip”.
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- Dolphin watching on the way to Cape Brett and the Hole In The Rock.
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- Bay of Islands dolphin eco encounter.
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- Puketi Forest.
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- Ancient Kauri tree at Hokianga.
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- Matai Bay, north of the Bay of Islands.
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- The lighthouse at Cape Reinga, northernmost point of New Zealand where two oceans meet.
4. Maori Chief Hone Heke photos…
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- Hone Heke and his wife Hariata.
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- Hone Heke and his wife Hariata.
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- Hone Heke on left and Patuone on right.
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- The Warrior Chieftains of New Zealand. Hone Heke centre with wife Hariata and Chief Kawiti standing behind.
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- Hone Heke, first Maori chief to sign the Treaty of Waitaingi on 6-Feb 1840, shakes hands with Governor Hobson (background) while behind him Kawiti signs the Treaty.
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- A Maori chief signs the Treaty of Waitangi on 6th February 1840.
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- With armed men watching on, Hone Heke wields an axe and fells the British flagstaff at Korororeka (Russell).
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- A humorous sketch from the Auckland Weekly News, 12 December 1896 depicting Governor Hobson interrogating Hone Heke about the axing of the flagpole.
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- A view from the British camp of the assault on Hone Heke’s pa at Lake Omapere, Ohaeawai. In the background British troops can be seen attacking the pa in two places.
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- Section, elevation and ground plan of Hone Heke’s pa at Lake Omapere, Ohaeawai drawn by Reverend TB Hutton from a drawing taken by Mr Symonds of the 99th Regiment in 1845.
