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Mn — The giant gamelish

“dn the offshore waters of this
“tiny, island have’ made it
* famous. ’

“ ‘only, ‘fishermen who .are
-making the trip to the island
iin’ search of mako and
\, hammerhead shark, marlin
and: broadbill swordfish.

“hikers, and nature lovers. °
. The island, roughly. cir-
" ‘cular inshapeand about four
woos fe: . 5 Kejlometres: across, teems

voy Ps with bird life in, its 1,277

f : ° i ot ‘hectares of unspoiled forest.

- Mayor Island, 27

Soe ae +> of the northern part of Nerth
een ‘Island, is the tip of an extinct
re “-yoleano which rose from the
oa ‘sea abput 7,000 years ago,
|. is- accessible - by day
cruises from. Tauranga and
* Whangamatu. —
a Jn the 19th century the
“;. ° {sland was inhabited by
Maoris who brought dogs,
‘eats; cattle and, unin-
‘tentionally, rats. ~
In those times Mayor
Island was constantly under
attack:by raiding parties of
other Maori tribes.

: disease, put an end to the.
; occupation and the last tribal
i residents left the island in
' about 1890.

.. Their. abandoned cats and
dogs took to the bush and
multiplied, threatening lo

wipe & out the native bird life. |

_Gamef ish | are just on

ridding the island of cats,

‘dogs and ts had
- But: increasingly it's not | jogs and pigs. The ca

-“, ° . Jthas become a mecca for ..

-Ilometres off the east coast —§

Over the years the endless :
‘ bloodhsed, coupled with

Cruise ships like this one are becoming In-

. throughout the world. More and more people are.

already eradicated the rats. ‘erater lakes, ‘one ‘tinged inhabitants, were attacked

_ferns. o Introduced pine trees.were black, the other. blue. by a large number’ of
En 1964 a conservation pro- destroyed in favor of native - Lake: Arearotamihine, or warriors called the
gram: was undertaXen,. treesandshrubsandbird life Green Lake, has a Maori Pounami. ‘After a bloody

battle the invaders were

flourished. * -: “legend explaining’ Its color.
routed. So many of the in-

In the literior are two The Tuhua, the original

turning to this leisurely activity for their
creasingly more common in’ waterways vacations. This is the M.V. Odessa. = __

e attraction —

: vaders werd slain, thie legend *

Boes, the waters of the lake
turned Breen with their
blood. . ;
A more. mundane — and
. scientific —- explanation is
the presence of large
" quantities of algae in the
water,

Lake, the less spectacular of
the - two, gets its coloring
from particles of a rock
called breccia,

on the island are accessible
by various tracks, some of
them for only the more
seasoned hiker. .

Shell collectors are also at.
tracted to Mayor Island. A
wide variety of sea shells can
be found, especially alter
storms, These» include the
fragile paper nautitus as well
as the trumpetshella, once
used by the Maoris as battle
bugles.

All that remains today of
the Maori presence is the
outlines of the pas — Maori
fortified homes — scattered
along the coastline. There
are still’ ~— occasional
discoveries of skulls and
artifacts in the'vicinity of the
strongholds,
. For the fishermen looking

for action without getting
hooked into the big game
fish, the waters off Mayor
Island are well stocked. As
many as 27 different species

of fish have been taken ina —

day by coastal fishermen.

Crabs‘ and crayfish are —

_algo plentiful in the bays.

Lake Paritu,' or Black -

The lakes and other areas -

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