Walk 64, 4th April 2021
Opepe is a place on the Napier-Taupo highway where nine Armed Constabulary soldiers from the Bay of Plenty Calvary were killed in 1869 by an advance party of Te Kooti’s troops.
A side track to the right near the car park brings you to the cemetery where they’re buried.
The bush is beautiful here, it escaped the axe and the Taupo eruption of 186 AD.
Walk: Taupo 37
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Te Kooti’s last battle was at the Te Porere Redoubt which we visited in Dec 2018.
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