N E W Z E A L A N D – W A I TA N G I C A R N I VA L
9 Events in 9 Days Words & photos: Paul Prudhoe (Central Coast Orienteers)
2008 saw the running of the third Waitangi Carnival on New Zealand’s North Island. The Waitangi Carnival was the brainchild of NZ elite orienteer Greg Flynn, who started the Carnival to coincide with New Zealand’s long weekend celebrating the signing of the Waitangi Treaty on February 6th. In 2006 Greg was coordinator for the complete event and controlled all five races. A year later, with a little more help from other NZ elites, Greg was again overall coordinator but still managed to set one race and control another. In 2007 and 2008 Simon Addison assisted Greg with many of the coordination tasks (and re-mapped Waikato University for the World Ranking event and Test match with Australia).
Map: Hedley Road, 1:10,000 Above: Dave Shepherd Right: Mace Neve
Dave Meyer at the Aramiro event
10 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER JUNE 2008
