Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : MAKO : Up close and personal with the fastest shark in the sea
CONTENTS - Departments : EDITORIAL / LETTERS / VIEWFINDER [Turoa ski patrol] / GEONEWS [Currents, taste buds, mangroves] / CYCLE TRAILS [The Motu Trails] / ARTEFACT [Mako tooth] / WEATHER [The Little Ice Age] / PROFILE [John Baker] /LIFE [Firenados] / BOOKS [Post Marks, Terrain, No country for old maids?] / HISTORY [Flying the Tasman] / IN THE FIELD [Lottie Hedley] / PARTING SHOT [What’s in a name?]
CONTENTS - Features :
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 - Finalists announced.
SPEED DEMON [Built for acceleration and power, the shortfin mako is the fastest shark in the world and icon of New Zealand seas]
THE ROARING GAME [For the first time in 84 years, the frosts aligned and New Zealand’s gathering of curlers returned to the Central Otago town where it all begain in 1879 - Naseby]
FORBIDDEN CATCH [A story of navies and pirates, of governments and vigilantes, of an ugly fish that grows to the size of a human, and a daring pursuit across three oceans to drive poachers out of our seas]
FINDING WHANGAROA [Old traditions, new beginnings in Northland’s historic harbour]
FORBIDDEN CATCH