WAIPU – HIGHLAND AT HEART
Planning on visiting Waipu? What better way to begin a New Year than to experience the sights and sounds of the traditional Waipu Highland Games with clans, kilts and cabers, pipe bands and bagpipes, sports, stalls and Scottish dancing! Each New Year’s Day Waipu celebrates its Scottish and Nova Scotian heritage, as it has done for almost 150 years, by holding the games, now one of Northland’s most iconic events, with a range of activities for all ages. This year, we decided instead to rock up to another event that’s quickly gaining popularity – Waipu’s Art ‘n Tartan wearable arts show. The show is held in July, and we took the opportunity to look at what else was on offer during that weekend.
For years we’d driven past a couple of ‘Waipu Caves’ signposts on State Highway 1 near Waipu, always meaning to stop but never quite making it. So that weekend we drove 12km up a side road to the caves. While the wellsignposted road is sealed for most of
