Former Te Awanga resident Colin Trevelyan, a collector of old cars and cameras, once owned the Living Image Vintage Camera Museum and a commercial hovercraft that took visitors out to see the gannets. Trevelyan has a photographic memory, reciting histories, model numb...

Derek van Asch was a local legend; a do it yourself, number 8 wire inventor, founding member of the Haumoana fire brigade, pioneering pea cropper for Jim Wattie, keen photographer and film maker. Derek once owned 100 acres of land from the massive old gum tree at the...

Despite having a mountain, a county, a beach, streets and so much more named after him, Captain James Cook, remains a polarising personality 250 years after he first sailed into Aotearoa with the HMS Endeavour crew. Cook is usually applauded for his navigational and m...

George and Catherine Glenny from Old Croft, Carlisle, Scotland acquired a 716 acre (290 ha) sheep farm on the slopes of Te Awanga in 1927, naming it Wilton after the village of Wilton Dene near Hawick Scotland where Catherine was born. The “easy contoured, rolling cou...

His passion for Morris Minors, initially handed down from family members, turned into a classic collection of British cars that soon outgrew its original Te Awanga showroom to overfill an old kiwifruit packhouse in East Rd, Haumoana.

“If you want to do something for your community or neighbourhood, then keep yourself well-informed and have your two cents' worth,” Joan Scott, on retiring from the Haumoana Residents and Ratepayers Association.

Access to Te Awanga was by metal road until it was finally sealed in the late 1930s with metal provided from a large quarry near the present day entrance to Cape Kidnappers Farm and golf course. The first tarseal surface went only as far as Vidals (Clearview Winery)...

It was a harsh and difficult section of land to farm with several changes over the next two decades as different parties either leased or owned it. Sam Charlton farmed the area from 1910 and built the homestead known as Tiromoana (Sea view); the entrance road is named...

The signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on the northern side of the Tukituki river mouth was an important signal to Hawke’s Bay Maori still living in self-imposed exile at Mahia Peninsula that it was now safe to begin the slow return home. The region had been under atta...

Clifton Beach, tucked under Cape Kidnappers on the southern side of the vast sweep of Hawke’s Bay, is on the watery doorstep of a world class fishery, hosts two camping grounds, a marine club, a popular café and an historic wool museum.