Cape Kidnappers gets its name from New Zealand's history. Captain Cook landed on Kidnappers Cape on October 15, 1769 along with a Tahitian interpreter and the interpreter's young son. The Maori kidnapped the son of Cook's Tahitian interpreter. The kidnapped kid, named Tiata, escaped after Cook's men fired on the Maori canoes and the kid jumped off the canoes of his captors and swam back to Cook's boats.
The tractor hauls all the tourists on these sort of "people wagons" and everyone has to raise their feet when the tractor goes through the ocean in spots and the waves come crashing in over the side of the wagons.
The weather was pretty crappy the day were at the Cape, but the trip was fun. We saw two breeding colonies of birds called gannets. It was amazing to see these birds roosting on the beach rocks in a protected area. We also saw some petrels.
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