The polarised north

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The polarised north

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

camping at Waitangi, 1975 [Archives New Zealand]
Holiday makers enjoy a Northland summer at Waitangi estuary, Waitangi, in the Bay of Islands, January 1975. Photographer: M. Berthold, Archives New Zealand

Northland – a land of contrasts where good ideas to “fix” health often go bad

Ah, the romanticism of camping, reliving my childhood of a Papamoa of asbestos-clad beach shacks, a sand-drifted backroad track to the Mount and a cam