WILD TASTES FESTIVAL

A weekend of celebrating a unique lifestyle as found on the East Coast. This large festival was held at the Uawa Sports Domain in Tolaga Bay. Locals got together to present a community binding event allowing visitors to sample their hospitality and taste some of the wilder foods available from the land, sea and air.

Merrill Brightwell & Heather Gibson with their Purple Passion stall.

Zak Horomia & Robyn Wilson with wild bird meats at Zak's Mai Mai.

Selwyn Ruru was a very busy organiser of the Festival yet he still had time for a lost child.

Cheryl Reedy of Seafood Heaven shows Greenland AFS student Ula Fleischer how to separate the barbequed garlic chilli mussell from its shell with a toothpick.

Dylan & Hayden Muir from Patutahi on the merry -go -round. They usually spend their Christmas holidays at Tolaga Bay.

The Saturday crowd had thinned and the entertainment continued.

A helicopter dropped numbered ping pong balls creating A scramble as each ball represented a prize. This was a lolly scramble or was it a ball bounce?