FROM CHRISTCHURCH TO OIL SPILLAGE CLEAN UP – BRADLEY JAMES IS HEADING TO TAURANGA

Bradley James, soldier in the New Zealand army, is now relieved of duties in Christchurch’s clean up and rebuild efforts and is now heading to Tauranga, Mt Maunganui to help clean up an oil spillage spectacle in between Tauranga’s coastline and Motiti Island the famed habitat of the rare tuatara.

Brad’s plane tickets North, to the top of New Zealand, will have to wait as will his best friends and whanau (family). He won’t get to see in the Rugby World Cup final either, on his ancestral whenua, in his second city, Auckland. In fact, Brad could be in Tauranga for weeks. :)

Whether it be on land or ocean or in the air, isn’t the life of a soldier so varied and interesting?

[Brad is pictured here with his grand Uncle, Bert Eruera Sr.]

[Music - Toia - a Maori classic - with a version by The Yoots]

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 10.10.11~