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Brandon Stone and the Bay Explorer It was skipper Brandon Stone’s tip to a passenger enjoying a trip out with him on his boat ‘Bay Explorer’ that resulted in the overjoyed shout “There’s a crocodile!”

The passenger had burst in through the wheelhouse door after sitting up front for a large part of the trip, enjoying the sound of water on the bow. It was his first time ever being on a boat.

“When we brief people, we tell them how to look for wildlife – usually texture on the surface. We say ‘Keep a lazy eye on the water’,” says Brandon.

He swung the boat around and discovered that the passenger had spotted a blue shark.

“It has large pectoral fins, comes to the surface to take in Vitamin D, and actually does swim like a crocodile.”

He wasn’t surprised to see it. He’s finding that the diversity and number of marine life out in the Bay of Plenty waters is increasing enormously.

“New Zealand-wide we have probably the strongest diversity of marine wildlife.

“On our dolphin and wildlife cruise, we talk to people about our relationship with the continental shelf and sea currents. We’re seeing species like leatherback sea turtles and sunfish as well as migratory species like the blue striped and black marlin coming into the area.

“Also tuna species - the skip jack tuna and yellow fin tuna. More recently there’s been the discovery of Maui dolphin here in this part of the coast. The last confirmed sighting was in Hahei.”

Brandon’s interest in the marine environment stemmed from coming over from Rotorua where he was born, to watch surfers at Mount Maunganui.

“Then I entered the corporate world, owned a business in Hong Kong doing corporate theatre and used to do fashion shows and launch events all over the world.”

His Hong Kong-based company ‘Upstage Corporate Theatre’ did work for the likes of Richard Branson in Singapore and launched Cathay Pacific Airline.

“When I returned to NZ in my 30s I decided I wanted to connect with the marine environment rather than the corporate environment.

“I made Mount Maunganui my home and studied marine science at Toi Ohomai.”

As a consequence he landed a position lecturing marine science at the tertiary centre.

“It was my first job being employed and I wasn’t really wanting that. I’d been my own boss for many years.”

He’d had another small company called ‘Aquanauts’ and worked for the first dolphin swimming operation in the Bay of Plenty more than 20 years ago. He’s spent time on the water with different vessels doing various projects, including as scientific observer for the Ministry of Fisheries, and doing film work for the Natural History Unit on the southern right whale, both roles in the Subantarctic.

“That was a full-on expedition wintering over in the Campbell Islands. Also spent a season as a

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The work with whales and attending whale symposiums reignited his passion for marine mammals. During his second year at Toi Ohomai he studied humpback whales, which included DNA sampling, working with biopsy samples and photo identification of humpback whales in the Tongan waters.

His skill set has extended to being an expedition leader, and a logistics organiser with his company ‘On the Wild Side’, taking people from all over the world to Tonga to swim with whales. He holds NZ’s second highest qualification in diving, as a master scuba instructor.

He bought the Kewpie, which takes people for trips around the inner Tauranga harbour. A lot of things were aligning to focus him on being more involved with marine wildlife.

“I want to show people what was out

there as I’d seen so much amazing wildlife.

There’s so much more to it than swimming with dolphins.

“The bigger wildlife story is about how the oceans work, how the habitat is important and how other species interact and interconnect.”

With that vision, he bought another boat from Motueka that had plied passengers into the Abel Tasman National Park, named it Bay Explorer and started ‘Bay Explorer Island and Wildlife Cruises’, with the intention of getting people out into the Bay of Plenty waters.

And he keeps a more-than-lazy eye on the water.

“There’s lots going on. Leopard seals, Hector’s dolphins and leatherback sea turtles in unprecedented numbers are coming through here. This year we’ve seen pygmy blue whales.

“What is underestimated is the variety

of whale species. We get whale sharks, manta rays, dwarf minke whales, beaked whale species, Bryde’s whales, fin whales, sei whales, southern right whales, and humpback whales.

“Last year we had an unprecedented number of false killer whales.” Also known as the Pseudorca, it is a member of the dolphin family.

Albatross, sunfish, penguins, petrels – it’s a rich wildlife environment. One season he may see more than 20 sunfish in a day, and the next doesn’t see a sunfish the entire season.

“It doesn’t mean there’s a decline, it just means that the currents haven’t come down or the food source hasn’t come with it.”

It’s about the timing of nature. Wind and nature doing its magic. Brandon is sharing his passion and keeping his lazy eye on the waters, day by day, season by season.

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The Adventures of Benjamin Boogie Photo: John Borren

Kourtney Troon’s children’s book has arrived. Full of fun illustrations ‘The Adventures of Benjamin Boogie’ tells the interesting story of an adorable booger named Benjamin who gets evicted out of Putrid Pete’s nose.

Benjamin Boogie embarks on an epic journey in order to find a new home. Will Benjamin Boogie be able to find another nose to live in? Or will he end up becoming Becky the Booger Eater’s lunch?

I was fascinated with how this gracious Canadian Kiwi, living in Otumoetai, came up with the idea of writing about nasal mucous.

“Originally I just made the book for my kids. I posted on Facebook saying what I was doing. My father did the illustrations and I thought that was really cool.”

One of her friends, who wanted a copy herself, suggested Kourtney submit her book to a publisher.

“I thought, ‘okay, why not? What’s there to lose?’ I googled publishers and children’s books, and Austin Macauley Publishers came up.”

A week after submitting her manuscript to the publishers, a contract arrived.

“I was very amazed by how very short the time was.

I’ve got a bit of a quirky sense of humour, which they seem to like.”

Benjamin is a loveable booger, if you’re into boogers. Children certainly are. Kourtney showed the story first to her eldest daughter April, age eight.

“She was like ‘oh, Mum’. And she kind of smacked

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her forehead. My middle child Autumn is a lot like me, and just cracked up laughing. She’s started coming up with ideas for a second book - all the different bodily functions we could think of together.

She just loved it.

“My three-year-old son Owen liked the pictures of Benjamin that my dad drew.”

Kourtney found it to be a special experience writing a book with her father James Edwards as the illustrator.

“We just did it for fun really. He wasn’t expecting me to submit it to publishers, so he was very happy and very surprised when I told him.”

James is keen to do the illustrations for Kourtney’s future books.

Her book has appeal worldwide and resonates in many ways.

“Benjamin Boogie is terrified throughout his journey. He gets evicted through Pete’s nose when Pete’s mum makes him take a bath because he’s too dirty.

“He grabs a tissue to blow his nose. Benjamin gets stuck on the tissue which goes into the trash which is picked up by a dump truck and taken to the dump where he meets Casey the cupcake who is a bit of a bully.”

Benjamin encounters other characters along the way including a napping bee and a pig. He doesn’t know if he’s going to find a new home. It’s easy to get caught up in this story.

“The Adventures of Benjamin Boogie” is available on line at https://www.austinmacauley.com/book/ adventures-benjamin-boogie Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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Marilyn Muirhead New BOP artist pushing the boundaries The Incubator has launched a new year of art with Marilyn Muirhead’s first solo exhibition.

Meeting the award-winning artist in the gallery is a pleasure; her smile and the colours she wears permeates the background art - the limes and mandarins evoking autumn ambience, the soft pervading mellowing of tones blending her own essence into the dyed thread and glowing paint around her.

Marilyn recently won the Emerging Artist award at the Tauranga Society of Artists competition after joining the society only a year ago, breaking the boundaries with a textile piece that has white ferns floating out of painted quilted fabric. It’s on display at the Incubator.

“Over the years I’ve experimented with new techniques and developed an original artistic style that incorporates textiles and paint, with a contemporary twist,” says Marilyn.

She has won national awards and been specially selected for exhibitions, including fine art galleries, in New Zealand, Australia, France, Japan, USA and Canada. The public appeal of her work was clearly recognised in 2017 through the Viewer’s Choice Award for ‘Fallen Leaves’ at the NZ Quilt Symposium.

Daring to be different, Marilyn is passionate about pushing perceived limits.

“I have chosen to make portraits my signature art form at the moment, as it is the biggest challenge I

can imagine,” says Marilyn, who used her children as subject matter.

“For a start it has to look like the subject, with correctly shaped nose and ears, and the eyes have to come to life to show their personality. But also, I need to catch a real likeness, this is the hardest thing to do, and I am enjoying the challenge immensely.”

With a background in interior design, Marilyn developed her skills with quilting, and now combines textiles and paint. Hanging in the gallery are dyed fabrics evoking themes of nature, with the ideas of connection and growth emerging. Images are subtly muted within the fibres, so as you stand in front of the panels you slowly become aware of a face and memories looking back.

Her hydrangeas, graphic Mauao images and abstract works using poured paint will appeal to a varied audience.

Marilyn has lived in various places around New Zealand before settling with her family in Tauranga about three years ago, attracted by the climate and vibrant lifestyle.

“I am thrilled to find there are so many enthusiastic and talented artists in the Bay of Plenty region to encourage and inspire, and have been very happy to be made to feel welcome into the Tauranga Society of Artists and the Tauranga Patchwork and Quilters.”

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Paddle to sunrise Starting the new decade It was the early hours of New Year’s Day. On the last day of the year I’d been working until well after midnight so was planning a sleep in, but I knew that Porina Whetu McLeod and her East Coast Paddler team were paddling out before dawn to greet the first sun of the new decade.

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She’d spread the word through Facebook, resulting in 15 enthusiastic and experienced paddlers turning up to join the three instructors. The plan was to paddle from Mount Main Beach to Motuotau Island and back, with breakfast served out on the water.

Porina hatched the idea for the New Year’s Day dawn paddle about three years ago.

“As a musician of over 20 years, the only time I would ever see a New Years’ Day sunrise was on my way home from gigging and socialising,” says Porina.

“I was starting my New Year feeling seedy and tired and would spend most of New Year’s Day in bed nursing a hangover or recovering from fatigue.”

“Since my involvement with paddling, I’ve discovered a new and wholesome way of doing life,” says Porina. “I’ve begun the last three years seeing the sunrise from the ocean.”

The small group assembled in the near-dark and were given their instructions. Breakfast was going to include muesli, gourmet yoghurt, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, cheese, crackers, a sandwich bun and juice, and they were keen to get out around the ocean side of Motuotau to enjoy it.

“There were nerves to start with as we had some waves, they weren’t huge but 5am in the emerging sun is a little scary for some,” says Porina. “We assured our guests that the worst thing that will happen is they’ll get wet, and that we’re there to assist each of them to get out past the waves.

“Although they had all paddled on flat water, waves are a little step up.”

Everyone geared up and received their dry bags containing their breakfast, before joining in a group prayer and setting off.

“One of our attendees, Mokoera Te Amo, acknowledged our natural entities with a karakia before we motivated everyone into the waves.

“There were a few spills, but not one person complained about that! The water was reasonably warm, and so was the air. We all made it out, and just as we crept around the front of Motuotau, Tamanuitera peaked on the horizon.”

Tamanuitera is the personified form of the sun. In Maori mythology, Tamanuitera was caught in a snare

by Maui who beat him to make him travel more slowly across the sky. When the vessel ‘Takitimu’ made her voyage from Tahiti to New Zealand the sailing instructions were as follows: “Keep the bow of the vessel carefully on Venus during the night, and during daylight follow behind Tama-nui-te-ra” which is Maori is “Kia pai te takoto o te ihu o te waka i runga i a Kopu i te po; i te awatea ka whai i muri i a Tama-nui-te-ra”.

“The air was smoky smelling, therefore it made for brilliant tropical colours reflected,” says Porina. The paddlers sat silently on their boards, gazing towards

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“Since my involvement with paddling, I’ve discovered a new and wholesome way of doing life. I’ve begun the last three years seeing the sunrise from the ocean.”

another one.

“That was a really good breakfast,” says a third paddler.

“I was quite rapt with that last comment,” says Porina.

“Just starting the year like this puts your year right.

It begins with clarity, calm and the confidence that I will be gifted with lessons and joys that will upgrade me into becoming an even better person than I was the year just gone.”

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the rising sun and admiring the brilliance as the light lit across the water around them.

“It was magical and so very special. We watched, we snapped pics, we beamed smiles at each other.

We were quite disbelieving of what we were witnessing, that we were on the ocean, that we shared this together.”

As the sun rose higher and the morning got brighter, the group paddled around to the back of Motuotau for breakfast on the ocean.

“Mokoera blessed our kai and we tucked in. Here we got to chat and to know each other a bit more.

“I took some time to ensure I had a chat with all attendees. A theme that seemed to permeate this experience was loss. Loss of parents, whanau members, close friends. For some, 2019 was about adjusting to life without some very close loved ones.

“This for me was befitting, because my thoughts were on a close fellow paddler I was hoping to drag out on this paddle, but who lost her life to suicide just days before Christmas.”

Porina had a chance to find her own private moment on the water.

“I thought just as the sun sets, it rises again. You just need to make it through the darkness and trust that there will soon be light.

“That’s how it was for me and each will have had their own experience.”

The group agreed that it was, as one of them put it: “The most beautiful start to the day, month, year, decade!”

“I was having second thoughts when we saw the waves, but I’m so glad to have come,” says

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Stepping on to the village green at Tauranga’s Historic Village last week, I turned to find Wentao Zhang swirling past me, holding aloft a large golden ball spinning on top of a pole he was carrying.

Following him and well above my head, a long colourful dragon was swerving and weaving as it chased the ball. A red lion also leaped past me, twisting below the mythical creature.

Wentao’s wife Suhua Yang was directing the dragon’s nine dancers, all fluidly moving to the drumming and music, as they wrapped the dragon body into a giant coil to try and trap the ball. In the middle Wentao was beaming, his face lit up in a broad smile of delight.

This was just the dress rehearsal. I can’t wait for the actual event on January 25. This is the first time that the Chinese New Year is going to be celebrated in Tauranga, followed two weeks later by the Te Puke Chinese Lantern Festival on February 8 at Jubilee Park.

Wentao and Suhua arrived in NZ about five years ago, and Wentao secured his permanent visa last year.

They both love it here. Their daughter Tina Zhang is president of the NZ China Friendship Society Tauranga, which has been organising popular events that showcase Chinese culture and arts.

Their Mid Autumn Festival in September 2019 featured Beijing Opera, Chinese instruments, kung fu and traditional dances. Prior to that, a Chinese Friendship Celebration was held in Te Puke in

August with performances, providing an opportunity to see the art of making Chinese tea, demonstration Tai chi and a traditional Chinese fashion show.

Along with the Mid Autumn Festival, two of the other most popular festivals held in China are the Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival.

“Last year when I was talking with the Tauranga City Council Community Development advisor Haidee Kalirai, she asked me why we don’t have a Chinese New Year celebration,” says Tina. “The Chinese population has increased here so it would be good to let people know more about our culture.”

It is unclear when exactly the celebration of the New Year began in China. It is said to have originated during the Shang Dynasty of 1766 BC 1122 BC. The lion and dragon have a long history in Chinese culture.

“Chinese people like to say we are dragon people,” says Tina. “So that’s why at every Chinese New Year we have the dragon dance and the lion dance.”

She imported the dragon costume from China.

“Normally we would have a longer dragon. You would usually have 11 or 20 people - we have nine.

The dragon wants to catch the ball, so he always chases it.”

The lion is a significant part of the dance.

“When people in China have a celebration for New Year or the Mid Autumn Festival they always have a lion dance.”

Tina has lived in NZ for about 12 years, originally coming from her home city of Shen Yang in China to study here when she was about 20 years. She is

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The Chinese New Year Festival on January 25 runs from 5pm – 9pm, beginning with a village street event featuring traditional Chinese food. The lion and dragon dance will be performed at 6pm after which Tauranga Mayor Tenby Powell will speak. At the Te Puke event on February 8 which also runs from 5pm – 9pm, Western Bay of Plenty Mayor Garry Webber will speak at 8pm. Following both mayoral speeches, 100 doves will be released.

At the Tauranga Historic Village event, there will be also be a performance at one of the street corners “by a young lady, a single lady”, says Tina.

“She will throw a ball from the upstairs balcony into the street below. Chinese tradition is that whichever single man catches the ball will marry the lady.

“In China a long time ago, maybe 1000 years or 5000 years ago, if the girl wanted marriage with a man she would throw the ball to him.”

There will be no marriage here.

“Just a game,” says Tina. “We’d like our local people to know our history, and part of our culture.”

I ask her if there will be lots of young men ready to catch it.

“We don’t know – we’ll just call out – ‘who is ready to catch the ball?’” says Tina.

There will also be plenty of children’s activities and a calligraphy demonstration.

Tina thinks there are about 2000-3000 Chinese living in the Tauranga region.

“Maybe not all of them will come, as I know some have gone back to China for Chinese New Year.

This year it’s early and some children will be on holiday still so that’s why they will be taking them back to China. Normally our Chinese New Year is in February.”

The Tauranga Chinese New Year Festival will be held on January 25 from 5pm – 9pm at the Tauranga Historic Village. The Dragon and Lion Dance is at 6pm and a cultural performance from 8pm – 9pm.

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Richie and Rosie New York based banjo and fiddle duo The dynamic team at the Jam Factory set a high bar in 2019 with over 100 musical events to dive into.

There was everything from funk to classical music, Australian blues to French Gypsy Swing, Rockabilly Brawls to Sounds of India. Pop, soul, electronic fusion, folk - it’s not just the quantity and diversity, but they’ve successfully landed Tauranga as a top destination on the international and national music touring map attracting bands, duos and solo acts from around NZ, USA and Australia.

Groups and solo acts are loving the intimate space complete with kauri floor, a high ceiling, rugs, lamps and seating for about 50-60 people. Previously Otumoetai Primary School’s old music room, the 100-year-old building is now dedicated to gigs and connecting the local music community.

The Jam Factory’s 2020 calendar is already looking full for the next month with over 15 live shows pencilled in, including Paul Ubana Jones, Askya, Kingsley Spargo, and the Alex Ventling Trio. At regular lunchtimes there’s opportunities to bring your sandwiches along and be entertained by local performers at the Jam Sandwich Sessions, and once a month the Improv Comedy Jam group ‘Honest Liars’ will be ‘in the house’.

In early February, New York based banjo and fiddle Americana duo ‘Richie and Rosie’ will be touring the country, with eight NZ concerts from Rawhiti in the north down to Wellington, and, thanks to The Jam Factory, they’ll be descending on Tauranga.

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“One of the greatest experiences of our lives has been being invited to New Zealand - on our last trip - and Rosie and I are so excited to return.

“We fell in love with your amazing country and its beautiful inhabitants! We are so proud of the way your nation presents itself in the world, truly inspiring, and our country could learn so much from paying attention. It is fairly possible we won’t want to go home! Looking forward to sharing our heartfelt music with you’all. Please come up and say hello!”

Richie, whose career has spanned decades, is an innovator of 5-string banjo much loved for his “mantra-groove spooky-banjo style” and has performed internationally with legends like Bela Fleck, Pete Seeger, David Byrne, Billy Bragg & Wilco, and Joan Baez. Rosie’s fiddle playing has been called ferocious, spanning many musical styles. Together they push the boundaries with their instrumental arrangements and harmonies.

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