SACRED WATERS
Walking in the footsteps of her ancestors and protecting a lake with the world’s clearest freshwater, made last summer rather special for Kylie Batt (Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō).
It certainly made up for leaving her job as a rafting and caving guide with Charleston’s Underwater Adventures, where she’d worked for 11 years before COVID knocked tourism for six.
Instead, Kylie spent the summer at Blue Lake Hut in the upper Sabine Valley, employed as the first-ever
