I battled the uphills on my first ever in my life Hike to get this video. The winds were around 55kmh when I had checked UAV and I had a real problem trying to land the drone in the heavy winds on a rock but the drone flew rock solid.
Mount Manaia has explosive origins. It is a remnant of a large stratovolcano which was likely to have been 1000m tall – twice the size Manaia is today – and part of a cluster of active volcanoes that dominated the top of the North Island millions of years ago. Manaia today is a result of its erosion over these millions of years, sculpted by flowing streams and changing coastline.
The folklore around the mount goes back Hundreds of years and is as below:
Māori history takes the mountain’s tallest craggy peak to represent Manaia, an ancestor and connector of Northland tribes, while the smaller peaks are his wife and children. Some traditions say that Manaia’s wife was unfaithful with Paeko, a servant. As a result, Manaia and Paeko exchanged incantations, during which Manaia and his family were turned to stone
Mount Manaia has explosive origins. It is a remnant of a large stratovolcano which was likely to have been 1000m tall – twice the size Manaia is today – and part of a cluster of active volcanoes that dominated the top of the North Island millions of years ago. Manaia today is a result of its erosion over these millions of years, sculpted by flowing streams and changing coastline.
The folklore around the mount goes back Hundreds of years and is as below:
Māori history takes the mountain’s tallest craggy peak to represent Manaia, an ancestor and connector of Northland tribes, while the smaller peaks are his wife and children. Some traditions say that Manaia’s wife was unfaithful with Paeko, a servant. As a result, Manaia and Paeko exchanged incantations, during which Manaia and his family were turned to stone
