Sunrise/Ryde

SUNRISE RYDE JET-SKI EXPERIENCE — LAKE ROTOITI

• 1.5‑Hour Morning Journey Across Lake Rotoiti at Dawn, 6:00 am to 08:00 am, Groups of 1 to 4 participants

• Experience the morning sun from on top of fresh water Lake Rotoiti —Dawnbreak the true magic hour.

• This is when the veil between dark and light lifts, and the whole lake shifts from night into day. The water is calm, the air is crisp, and the world feels brand new.

• We ride across the lake to our sacred maunga Matawhaura.

• Engines off. Stillness, a moment to breathe, chat, and fish if you’re keen.

• As Te Rā, the sun Atua, rises, it puts to rest I Te Pō, the darkness of night.

• The light awakens the living world — I Te Whaiao, i Te Ao Mārama — and our mauri rises with it.

• At this time of year, Sunrise sits between 6:00 AM and 7:30 AM, and we’ll be out there right as everything comes alive.

• Lake is flat, early morning, glassy, and quiet. Your jetski is travelling 80 kph, skimming only millimetres above the surface of Mother Earth, time bends, motion warps. You become close to it, naturally, we become in tune, alive, awake, connected to the water under your hull holding you,  pushing and pulling you, all at the same time, on a high-performance, easy-to-handle precision water craft machine.

• On the way back, we can troll/tow the lines using the Sea‑Doo Fish Pro’s charts and finders. With local knowledge of feeding spots, your odds of hooking a trout are solid.  

• If we land one, we’ll clean it, wrap it in foil, and place it in one of our sacred/tāpu ngāwha geothermal cooking spots — places steeped in Māori history used to cook kai since Te Arawa waka arrived with our ancestors Ngatōroirāngi and Tamatekapua about 1000 years ago,  finding Aotearoa. 

• By the time we return, your trout will be naturally cooked Ruāomōko style, maori atua( God) of lava hot-springs Ngāwha, all that is hot from the earth, he is a big player around here, so respect is given to the hot places Ngāwha, ready to take home. We finish around 8:00 AM, just as the rest of the world wakes up.

• This is something you feel, not something you explain. No matter your beliefs, the sunrise on this lake connects us with nature in awe-inspiring moments that are lived and shared with fellow living beings. Our forests, our waters, our air, our earth, our sun, and all that is in between, this is Tē Aō Mārama,  a Māori concept.