Waikaremoana | highlights from a 3 day family tramp

My boys are grown now. They live and work around New Zealand, and I do not often get to see them all in one place. So each year, in the week before Christmas, I try to gather them for a few days in nature and create some shared memories. This year we walked the Waikaremoana Great Walk. On the surface, it is a three-day tramp around a lake. But for me, it is about more than the track. It is about time together before life pulls us apart again. It is about challenging days, hut nights, swims, long conversations, and the kind of “remember when” moments that become part of a family’s shared history. It is also about a question I keep asking myself as the boys get older: how many more of these trips will we get? This film is about family ritual, nature, memory, and the effort of keeping connection alive. #Waikaremoana #GreatWalk #Tramping #NewZealand #FamilyAdventure #HikingDocumentary