Kia ora bloggers,
today we went to the Maritime Museum and it was super fun. I enjoyed going on the boat ( Ted Ashby ) And pulling the sail which was a little bit hard.
They had interactive games that you could play, like a sailing game which was with 5 or 6 people and you all had to do your part.
There was another thing in the main area we entered. 2 pictures of people and were telling facts about the muesum and about the place were in ( wakas ) they were animated.
The Ted Ashby was very cool. We got to pull the sails and could walk around, I think everyone liked the boat ( although some people felt sick ) we also saw some bungee jumpers on the Harbour bridge. We saw 2 people jump and we went around the Harbour once.
Heres some things about the actual Museum that I enjoyed. I loved the room where it swayed a little bit side to side and their was bunk beds ( it was supposed to act like the bunkers in a boat and how its going over waves I think ) it was also my favourite.
Their was 2 or 3 huge rooms fulled of wakas, the big one was the height of the roof and their was some other small wakas near it, it reminded me of Moana.
We learnt about migration and things that helped guide the people when sailing : stars, birds, ( god wits ) whales, ( humpback ) wind, sun, moon, clouds and currents. Eagles don’t help when trying to find your away around when foyaging. All they do it go in a circle and leads you nowhere.
But the point of this visit was to learn about migration, and how some of our ansestors traveled back then and about the settelers.
A really interesting story a guy named Lee told us ( he was touring us around the museum ) was maori people were sailing and dutch people were sailing. They saw eachother and the maori people said :
“Its a goblin!” There attacking us!”
But the dutch just wanted to talk and not fight, but the dutch couldn’t understand what the maori were saying because they didn’t understand maori. The maori thought they were getting attacked so they blew this horn to let everyone know that their attacking. The dutch blew their horn to because they thought it was good to do that back. But for maori it ment that they wanted to fight and so thats what they did. And unfortunately some people passed away including kids on the ship.
Overall I loved the experience at the Maritime Museum. Also if you growed up in Auckland you can visit their for free ( I don’t think the boat though )
The Maritime Museum’s website is here : https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ If you wanna see a bit more of what it’s about.
I’ll add pictures too!
Have you gone to the Maritime Museum? ( During school or on the holidays sometime ) If you haven’t, would you wanna go?
Blog you later!
Khadijah.
