Keith Newman
Neil Burden’s legacy - Caring for the Cape (Part 2 of 2)
Next generation takes over at Burdens Camp and gannets business; bulldozers replace pick axes to clear the Cape, a love of classic tractors, DOC demands a concession....dramatic rescues Cape Coast identity Neil Burden ran Gannet Beach Adventures for several decades, helping to turn it from a family hobby into a business, driving people out to the Gannets from the age of 15-years. It was never a full-time job for the mechanic and engineer and neither was running the Burden’s M
Keith Newman
Neil Burden’s legacy - Caring for the Cape (Part 1 of 2)
Neil Burden has been committed to the health and safety of locals and the local environment for decades, and still at 86-years retains his duties as an honorary ranger checking on species growth with a watchful eye on the cliffs of the Cape for potential landslides. Neil, one of the grandchildren of pioneering Te Awanga residents Thomas and Julia Burden who first camped there in the late 1890s, and still heads out around the coast on his quadbike checking on the growth of sma
