Music, wine, sun at Ocean and Orchard Fest

Saturday’s Ocean and Orchard Festival on Kerikeri Domain featured dozens of stalls offering Northland food and wine, young Rotorua band Strangely Arousing as the headline act, lemon-sucking and oyster-shucking contests, and a wearable arts contest where the supreme award went to 9-year-old Jack Kinghan for an extraordinary costume made from recycled venetian blinds. Many festival-goers came up from Whangarei and made a weekend of it; one particularly enthusiastic group travels from Hamilton every year. Photos by Peter de Graaf.

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Blues vs Drua

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

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Cruise ship

Regatta was welcomed to Whangārei-te-rerenga-parāoa (Whangārei harbour) with a pōwhiri conducted by hapū Patuharakeke as about 580 passengers disembarked.

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