Becoming a Dive Instructor Can Take You All Over the World, Even Antarctica!

One of Dive Zone Whitianga’s ex Diploma in Professional Scuba Instructor graduates, Freya, has plenty to say about her amazing world working in the dive industry.
Hilary Emerson Lay: Art That Smiles Back

A woman walks up to my table at a craft show. She flips through my greeting cards and abstract paintings before discovering my sock monstahs, the playful little stuffed guys I make out of …
Howard Saunders: Poems in the Sand, Heart in the Ngahere

Howard’s connection to the Coromandel ran deep. He restored our dunes, planted our ngahere, and carried a genuine love for this place and its people.
Shaping Steel, Shaping Spaces

Stefan Field has been creating and solving problems in metal for nearly three decades.
Vegas Brown: A Musical Powerhouse on the Peninsula

Originally hailing from Hamilton, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vegas Brown had an illustrious career before moving to Whitianga.