Dame Anne Salmond visited Akaroa recently for the Akaroa Civic Trust’s 50 year celebration and to discuss the Tahitian navigator Tupaia with Dr Eruera Tarena of Ngai Tahu.
I am your guide, Marie Haley, I was born and raised on Banks Peninsula. The seventh generation direct decedent of Akaroa’s very first French settler. I grew up on the family farm following in the footsteps of my Grandfather, and his Grandfather before.