22 Dec 2025

Whitianga's Waka Kai

From Nine To Noon, 9:10 am on 22 December 2025

We reckon it's a good idea to recognise some of those who'll keep working through the summer break, so that the rest of us can enjoy a holiday. People like Kerry Stanley, who runs the Waka Kai, making deliveries from New World Whitianga around the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. If you know the region, you'll know Cooks Beach is five minutes by boat from Whitianga, it's 45 minutes by car - and that's on a good day. And you can't count on a good day at this time of year. This is the sixth year Kerry's been running the Waka Kai, and he's joins Bryan to tell us more.

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