Paihia's week-long Summer Festival wound up on Saturday with the popular sandcastle competition, which saw more than 40 teams compete for creativity and prizes such as helicopter rides and boat trips. This year's entries ranged from Matauri Bay's Rainbow Warrior Monument replicated in sand, marking the first visit to Northland of the new Greenpeace flagship, to a giant weta and native centipede, the sea god Tangaroa, sharks, marlins and turtles. One group even made a scaled-up version in sand of a German backpacker's new silver fern tattoo.
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.
