Matariki Family Day Out

It might be the middle of winter, we’ve just passed the shortest day, but that doesn’t stop us Coromandel folk from making the most of nature. Yesterday we celebrated Matariki, or the Maori New Year (timed around the rising of the Pleiades star cluster on the eastern horizon in the dawn sky), in true Kiwi style, by gathering fresh kaimoana and cooking it over an open fire on the beach.

We celebrated how our food should be - fresh from the ocean and garden. Nature providing.

You simply can’t beat a day spent barefoot in nature with whanau, culminating in an epic cook up around an open fire. The morning was spent planting some new citrus trees on our land, and harvesting for our fish cakes, spring onion, spinach, kumara, leek, parsley, mint.

We put Provider in the water at midday, Bella, Noah and I dived finding a few Crays, Tia, Oscar and Dima had five kahawai on board by the time we had ascended.

Time for a cook up! Crayfish and kahawai fish cakes with a smoky hit!

And some of the sweetest Kina I have ever tasted. And we even added a beach clean up in the mix, with Bella collecting a bag full of rubbish that was disposed of properly back home.

Days like this are what life is all about! Why can tailor a trip like this for your whanau, just get in touch with us a providercharters@gmail.com