Ki te pai, kei raro i a koe i mua nei tetahi o ena ngutu roa nui e haere ana i muri i te rea. Kua kitea anō ēnei ngutu i te mea e kawe ana i ngā mea nui rawa koa, he mea hoko tūranga hoki. He pēhea rawa kaore he tika? He aha mai ki te wā ka motu i te waea? Ki te pai, he waka ā-pūmotu e toru rara nui! Ko tēnā, he Waka Rara Nui ā-Pūmotu tērā. He momo waka taumata kē tēnei e whai ana i te whakamahi mo ngā mahi iti ā-matou, engari he whakahaukite tonu ki tōna whenua nui rawa.
‘Waka rara nui ā-pūmotu’ koia nei he waka iti ā-pūmotu e toru rara nui. He mea tae noa ki te U-Haul o ngā ngutu. Kaore he waea hei whakahaere i tēnei, engari he pūmotu ā-pūmotu e whakahaere ai i te paepae, e rerekē ana i te waka ture tūturu. Ko tēnei he nui ake te pai mo te ao, nā te mea ka heke i tana āhua kaiwhakarite i te kaiwhakaroto. Ka horoia te rangi e te kaiwhakaroto, ka mate hoki tōna whenua. He mea iti rawa hoki ngā waka rara nui ā-pūmotu i runga i ngā waka tūturu, nā te mea kaore he wehe nui o te pūmotu i a ia!
He pai ā-mutunga te kāreti hīkoi whiria i te take nui. He mea anō, kāore rātou i te whakamahinga i te pērahi, nō reira he haere herehere ki te whenua. Ko tēnei e hīkina nei i te waiū māuiui me te hau pai mō tātou katoa. Ka ora mai rātou i a tātou, nā te mea ka pai ake tātou ngākau i te hau pai. He aha hoki te utu whakahaere, nō te mea he iti rawa atu te utu hiko i te pērahi, ka noho ēnei hei whakaiti moni mō ēnei i whānau ai. Ko te mea nui hoki, he iti rawa atu te waea i runga i ēnei i te waea o ngā kāreti matua, ko tēnei he pai, nō te mea he nui ngā tangata e noho ana i te taha o ngā oneone rorohiko, e kore ana rātou i te hiahia kia rongo i ngā waea rahi.
Tētahi atu pūnaha nui o ngā waka rorohiko me ngā roa toru kārae he mea tōrino ki te hīkoi i roto i ngā wāhi iti. Ki te kitea ai, ko ngā toru kārae noa iho o ēnei waka, he rahi rawa atu te taiao whitinga o ēnei waka i runga i ngā kaiwhakarite motokā. Ko tēnei he pai takiwā mō ngā tāone e āhei ana ki te mōhio i te nuinga o ngā motokā me ngā hītori iti. Ki te koeke koe i runga i tētahi wāhi karukaru, ka whai kaha ki te whakapakari pākiri me te hīkoi, ka tono mai ngā waka rorohiko me ngā roa toru kārae hei āwhina i a koe ki te kuhu i runga i tētahi wāhi iti iti.
Ko te mahi whakamana i tētahi tūru roa me te maha, i runga i te reira o te wāhi iti nei, he mea nui rawa atu te whakatūhia, ā, he rereke nui hoki ngā whakaaro. He iti rawa atu, he waihanga e taea ana te hurihanga, ka taea e ia te haere i ngā wāhi iti hoki ki runga i a ia kia kore e pērā. Koia enei kua pai noa iho hei whakapakari i te mahi o te tuku moni ki ngā tāone kua kitea ngā wāhi e hainahia ana ki te haere. I tēnei wā, kua whakatika te kaiwhakangungu i te Whare Wānanga o Washington i tēnei momo whakahē. Ko te kaiarahi tuku moenga i te wā e tuku pakete ki ngā tangata i roto i te paewhenua nui rawa, ko ia tonu te pai ki te mahi nei - ā, ka mahi i a ia i runga i tētahi tūru tricycle elekiterikau pai rawa.
He nui ngā whakamahi mōna, ā, he whai hua tōna i te mahi o te hokohoko taonga, te tukutuku hirikaha. E āhei ana hoki i te mahi i ētahi atu mahi, pērā i te tuku pūkapanui, te whakatika kai, ā, ka taea hoki e rātau te tuku pūtake pūmau i runga i ngā waka! He iti rātou, ā, he wāhi tōnū ki te whai, kia puta i ngā wāhi kei reira e kore noa iho te tukutuku nui. Ki te tino wero, ko tēnei nui ake te wanaunga e mahi ai hei whakarite tonu mō ngā pakihi e hiahia ana ki te hīkoi taonga i roto i ngā tāone.
Tētahi atu mea nui rawa ko ngā tukutuku hirikaha nei he mea hirere i te whenua. Ka puta i te itinga iwi e puta ana i te waihanga hirikaha, ā, he kētona i te hauhere motu. He pai ki ngā pakihi e hiahia ana ki te kite i te oranga Papatūānuku, ā, ka whakaiti i te whakamahi i tō tātou whenua. Mō tēnā iho, ka kitea e ngā pakihi e whakaae ana ki ngā tukutuku hirikaha ko te manaakitanga ki te taiao, ā, e mahi ana ki te hunga i tētahi ao kikoire.