Last weekend saw the Kite Festival and if you missed it, the Facebook page has plenty of pics and vids.

In Otaki we took the opportunity to see what else there is, and discovered an idiosyncratic shop called Hipsta in the railway village.

And, of course, a trip to Otaki wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the site of the infamous CleanTech centre on which the previous council wasted over $600,000 of ratepayers’ money (see earlier.)