Kapiti Island

Kapiti Island

Have you ever wondered how a beautiful island filled with trees and bushes like when your mum puts too much broccoli on your plate.Birds and animals feeling free to do what they want. The sun gazing on the dark blue water surrounding the island. A fantabulous place to visit that we now call Kapiti Island came to be? Well this is a story about a new zealand tribe called Ngati Haua just off the kapiti coast created their own island.

One day men from the new zealand tribes Ngati Haua and Ngati Tama went fishing to feed their whole tribe.They each threw down their nets then ran across the beach.They ran about 10 metres down and the men from Ngati Haua bumped into the men from Ngati Tama.When they bumped into each other all the fish that were in the net scattered back out into the ocean.All the men started arguing and blaming each other.The men from Ngati Tama told the men from Ngati Haua they were never allowed to go fishing in that area again.The men from Ngati Haua disagreed and all the men went back their tribes complaining.Ngati Haua Chief made a plan to build their own island that they can live on and they will never have to bump into Ngati Tama ever again.The only problem was how were they gonna build their own island?They went looking for things that might make and island until one tribal member had a suggestion to cut off some of the land then push the piece of land out into the water.They went looking for something sharp enough and strong enough that might cut through the land.They whole tribe went looking then one small tribal member saw these ginormous boulders that they can drop in a line on the land where they want to cut it.The strong men carried the boulders over to the place they wanted to cut.They all dropped the boulders at the same time and the earth broke.They pushed the piece of land  out into the ocean it floated out then it stopped it has stayed in that place.The tribe couldn’t believe it, they has created their own island.The tribe sailed their boats over to the island to celebrate.Ngati Tama saw Ngati haua and they got very jealous.Ngati Tama tried to create their own island but they failed.Instead they created this big earthquake.The ground shook.Trees fell and Ngati Tama ran.They grabbed their boats and sailed over to the new island.Ngati Haua were mad.They saw Ngati Tama coming and they were ready to shoot.Ngati Tama begged to come onto the island.The two tribes made a deal.Ngati Haua and Ngati Tama both got half of the island each.They did lots of fishing and there was no more fighting between the two of them and they lived forever happy.

For those who were wondering this is how Kapiti Island Came to be.And when you go there you might still see the two tribes nets floating in the water.