“Both Robert and I are humbled that we have had a part to play in transforming Cape Kidnappers. It’s been a win-win for everyone including quality tourism in Hawke’s Bay”, says Charlotte Fisher.

“It was a long and narrow property and difficult to farm. The best grazing country is at the Cape end; the roughest at the Te Awanga-Clifton end. It ... required hard work to make it viable ... you couldn’t just live on the view.”

Next generation takes over at Burdens Camp and gannets business; bulldozers replace pick axes to clear the Cape, a love of classic...

Neil Burden has been committed to the health and safety of locals and the local environment for decades, and still at 86-years retains...

From the highlands of Scotland to the plains of Te Awanga, New Zealand - the story of the Haddington Estate

Dozens of whale bones discovered at Rangaika on the southern side of Cape Kidnappers (Te Matau-a-Maui) in the mid-1980s

“There were plenty of chipped hulls, dunged props and even rudders, occasional injuries and a whole lot of wet bums. There had to be a...

Proposals to turn the Cape Coast into a tourist Mecca; redesigning Te Awanga around a diverted Maraetotara river and a gannet theme park...

In April 2021 the Coop family celebrate 100-years and four generations of farming on Tuki Tuki Station which backs on to Shaw’s Tiromoana...

The Tuki Tuki property and rebuilt classic colonial homestead looking out over the Kaweka ranges, adjoining Craggy Range and the Williams’ L