What started as a way to educate Brownies about Anzac Day has turned into a tradition spanning 25 years for three South Otago women.
Each year, Kaye Moore, Pam Cook and her daughter Eileen, attend the Anzac Day service at Tuapeka Mouth, have their cups of tea after the service, and spend the rest of the day laying wreaths on the various monuments around the district.
A former Brownie leader, Mrs Moore used to take Brownies with her on the trip as a way to educate them about Anzac Day.
Now, the trio say the trip has become a tradition.
Mrs Moore used to attend the dawn services in Clydevale with her father, a returned serviceman.
Eileen said her father's favourite teacher went away to war and never came home.
She said it had a profound impact on her father, and subsequently on her.
"They put a plaque under a tree at Warepa School, and as children, we used to go down there with a flask of hot water and scrub it."
The women start their trip in Greenfield, then travel to Clydevale, and Rongahere, before going somewhere for lunch.
Mrs Cook said carrying on the tradition of Anzac Day was really important, "otherwise those stories of war are going to die with us oldies."
