"These were kids of excellence," Mr Bray said at Elim Christian College yesterday.
"We have lost some amazing difference-makers, some role models, and my daughter was one of them."
Mr Bray, who has been on dialysis for 17 years and is awaiting a kidney transplant, said he had asked Natasha about the rain hammering the Tongariro region.
"She said, 'My good friend Portia (McPhail, who was in the group and also died) said we have got this little saying that says we are going to jump in puddles, Dad.
"She said, 'What I mean by that is even if it is bad, we are going to make the most of it'.
"That is what my daughter and Portia were like.
"And I guess that is what all the parents are trying to do right now. We are going to try and jump in puddles."
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