Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Today Kennedy talks about two of the landscapes featured in a new book, Shifting Grounds, which explores the deep histories of Tāmaki Makaurau.

As is fitting for a city of volcanoes, both landscapes have rocks at their heart: the stonefields of Ōtuataua, and an ancestral rock that stands in Cornwall Park.

Approaching Ōtuataua Stonefields.

People have been stacking and arranging rocks on the Ōtuataua Stonefields for centuries

Fertile soil and heat-retaining rock made the Ōtuataua Stonefields a prime location for Māori gardens.

Te Toka i Tawhio, the stone that travels, in Cornwall Park.