We are pioneers of sorts. The first to embark on this new course and we are researching and writing the course as we go along. Starting off with the newly discovered continent of Zelandia, through dinosaurs and up to the present day. A group of us carpooled down to Hawera to visit Tawhiti Museum, an excellent resource for our current topic, Whalers and Traders. Tawhiti Museum is a wonderful, historical experience, with amazing figures depicting the locals of the time clambering up hills and down gullies, with horses, muskets and in recognisable local spots. Tawhiti Museum, an hour away, is a world class attraction. We were exceptionally lucky to have Nigel Ogle, the creator of the museum and all the figures in it, telling us some local stories. The café is so good that we visited it before and after our trip through the Traders and Whalers cave. The pleasure in belonging to a group of like-minded people and the chance to do some different activities in retirement that we didn’t have time to do before, priceless.
Lots to do at U3A.