NORTHLAND · NEW ZEALAND
Hokianga
Three stories, connected by a journey north.
HOKIANGA TRILOGY
One road, three kinds of time.
Start with the first story and read straight through, or read any one on its own.
The series map shows the whole journey; each story keeps only the part of the route it covers.
Follow the road into three stories
Hokianga story map
The dotted line connects story stops; it is not a driving or walking route.
Open the full map ↗THREE STORIES
Each begins with a particular moment.
01 · Tokatoka
Touching a Donkey, Touching Time
After touching nearly a thousand years of kauri rings at the museum, the children stopped below Tokatoka for the donkeys while I kept climbing.
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02 · Arai Te Uru / Koutu
Let’s Make a Quiet Wish
A wave soaked me in the morning. Later, at Koutu, I knocked over a stack of wishing stones and the three of us had to rebuild it one piece at a time.
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03 · Opononi / Waipoua
What Time Takes Away
We had planned to take a boat to the dunes, but no one answered the phone. Opononi, Waipoua Forest and the night sky carried the journey somewhere else.
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