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Sea Stacks at Karitane Beach, and more seagulls. There must have been something very tasty on the tideline. You will see from my other photos that they were everywhere!
Thank you for taking yet another look at Karitane and for any comments.
Legend of Wairaka
"Opinions vary as to the meaning of Karitane (literally: kari=to dig; tane=men) but one legend tells of a local girl, Wairaka, who desired as a husband one of a visiting group. That night she crept into the visitors' communal hut and scratched his face as he lay sleeping to identify him in the morning as her betrothed. But another among the visitors, who had seen the looks Wairaka had given her intended and who desired the girl for himself, changed places with him and so Wairaka had scratched the face of the wrong man. The incident gave rise to a proverb: "What a terrible mistake Wairaka made in the dark". "