A record crowd packed Kerikeri’s main road on Saturday for an evening of dancing, music, fine food and wine in the Bay of Islands town’s annual street party. The popular knees-up featured featured three bands playing rock and jazz, nine Northland wineries, 24 food stalls offering everything from blueberry icecream to calamari-wrapped mussels – and a surprise zombie flashmob dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Now in its fifth year the event was founded by a group off B&B owners to give the thousands of out-of-town runners in the Kerikeri Half Marathon a reason to stay another night. Organisers put the size of the crowd at 6000 people, bigger even than 2011’s estimated 4000. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
Tintype Central is a portrait studio specialising in the wet plate colloidion process, a 19th century method of development that predates film photography.
Northern Advocate photographer Michael Cunningham captured all the fun and action from the 2024 Northland Fritter Festival, held at Semenoff Stadium on Saturday, March 9.
Captain's run for Blues rugby team at Semenoff Stadium, Okara Park, Whangarei, Sam Nock feeds the ball out during the Captain's run. Photo/ by Michael Cunningham
About 75 crews took part in the BP Surf Rescue North Island IRB Championships at Waipu Cove on February 10 and 11, where sunshine and medium-sized waves made for a great event.
Regatta was welcomed to Whangārei-te-rerenga-parāoa (Whangārei harbour) with a pōwhiri conducted by hapū Patuharakeke as about 580 passengers disembarked.
