1018 days ago

Ep 3 ORBS: (Enlarge photo for better view)

Paul from Levin

Ep 3: ORBS
My uploads yesterday and the day before described the location and disastrous outcome of the 1824 failed attempt by a coalition of Maori tribes to take Kapiti Island back from Te Rauparaha's control, and referred to the heavy death toll which resulted and the connection with Okupe Lagoon.

I was walking along a path near Okupe Lagoon intending to climb to the North West side of the Island. Something about where the path became a tunnel through a dense population of Kanuka, made me stop and take photographs. When I returned home and downloaded the images to my computer, I was puzzled and surprised by strange lights in some of the images. Camera technology could not explain the lights. It was a very grey overcast sky and no artificial light source present. I had no alternative explanation. At the time I did not know about Te Rauparaha's presence on the island nor about the failed attempt to regain control.

I searched the web for possible explanation of such mysterious lights and found they were not so rare in photography and were called "orbs'. Then, as luck would have it, about a week later RNZ broadcast a documentary covering the activities and purposes of Te Rauparaha in the lower North Island and further South. Which brings me to one of the photographs.

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