Everyone enjoyed this 2018 walk and learnt a lot about the 1918 flu epidemic and how it affected Waihi.
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Educational Cemetery Walk
April 30, 2018
Walker's Words 2016
April 01, 2016
...And our ever popular poet, Bob Mills, strikes again! Lynch Stream (Kauri to Coastline). Not what I expected, Showers sometimes all connected, ECHO walkers, Whanga Ramblers, 10am. Basil first and Justine last Herding venturers and fast, All swallowed by the...
Walker's Words 2015
April 01, 2015
Please enjoy these walkers words from frequent participant Bob Mills. Thanks Bob!
Walker's Words 2014
March 18, 2014
Thank you Bob for another great reflection of your experience of the Mayor Island walk.
Walker's Words 2013
February 25, 2013
The festival brings people from all walks of life together. We are lucky enough to have an avid walker who joins us every year and who is also a great poet.
A perspective on the ECHO Walking Festival
May 01, 2012
As I reach the crest of the ridge after a slow steady climb through native bush and turn to look out across at the vista of the Hauraki Plains and beyond, I feel a sense of achievement. I wonder to...
Walker's Words 2012
April 22, 2012
Some poems from Bob Mills on various ECHO Walking Festival walks.