Te Pouahi were lucky enough to have Matua Manihera come and visit us. He is an expert about Waka and Navigation. He showed us many slides of waka and how navigation works. We felt really lucky to be able to have him share his knowledge with us. He tested us on some of the Maori kupu for the stars and for the compass directions! Some of us knew the Maori kupu but some of us had some new learning!
Matua Manihera was able to answer the many questions we had for him. We found out where the navigator sits on the waka hourua, where the crew sleep, and what food they eat. Matua even told us that it takaes 2 weeks to sail to Tonga from Aotearoa, 2 weeks to sail to Tahiti and then a month to sail to Hawaii!
We really liked one of his saying's "If you look after your waka, your waka will look after you".
Thank you Matua Manihera for coming to share your knowledge with us. We hope you can come back to Te Poauhi sometime soon.
No comments:
Post a Comment