Photographic images of Golden Bay, New Zealand

Archway Islands.
The Archway Islands are located at Wharariki Beach, west of Cape Farewell, the northernmost point of the South Island of New Zealand. The Archway Islands are a group of four rock stacks or small islands, with even the largest one of them measuring only about 300 by 200 metres. Source; Web.

Cape Farewell. Fossil Point. 
Farewell Spit stretches 34km long, making it one of the longest natural sandspits in the world. A wetland of international importance, it has been a bird sanctuary since the 1930’s and provides a home for over 90 bird species. Bar tailed godwits, knots, curlews, whimbrels and turnstones fly around 12,000 kilometres every northern hemisphere autumn to spend the summer here in the south. Source; 100% Pure New Zealand.

Westhaven Inlet.
Westhaven (Whanganui Inlet) Wildlife Management Reserve stretches over 2112 hectares. The estuary is an enclosed, drowned river valley about 13 km long and between 2-3 km wide. As the tide enters the inlet, it divides into northeast and southwest channels before spilling out onto expansive intertidal sandflats, which dominate the estuary. Seagrass beds, salt marshes, tidal wetlands, dunes, cliffs, islands, rock platforms and underwater reefs are all found within the marine reserve and are important habitat to a variety of species. About 30 species of marine fish use the inlet at some stage of their life cycle, and it is an important breeding and nursery area for snapper, flatfish, and kahawai.  Source; Department of Conservation.  The road along the eastern shore of Whanganui Inlet is called Dry Road, because the numerous mudflats could once only be crossed at low tide. The inlet was commonly used as a refuge for sailing ships in westerly storms.

 Mangarakau Wharf, Westhaven Inlet.
​Two entrepreneurs, Prouse and Saunders, sailed into the Westhaven inlet in 1903, bringing saw milling equipment and tram rails, three prefabricated houses and enough manpower to set up a flax mill at Paturau and a sawmill at Maungamangarakau (as it was then called) River.  A public road to Paturau was complete by 1905, although the boggy terrain of Mangarakau made the going pretty arduous. Collingwood County Council was the first to attempt drainage operations on the road in 1907.  By 1918  Prouse and Saunders had laid a staggering 25 miles of wooden tramline, held together by 16 tons of large nails, as well as a wharf at Pah Point. Source;  Mangarakau Swamp website.

Te Waikoropupu Springs, Takaka.

Kaituna Track to Westhaven Inlet, ​Little Granity Creek. 

The Langford Store, Bainham, 1928.

Salisbury Falls, Aorere River, Bainham, Golden Bay.
Salisbury Creek and the footbridge were named after the Salisbury family, descendants of brothers John and Charles Salisbury who came to the area to seek their fortunes from gold about 1860. The falls are a Lord of the Rings location. Source: Web.

Children's Transport Mural, (circa 1950's), Rockville Museum, Rockville.

Collingwood.

Collingwood is Golden Bay’s oldest and second-largest town. Gold was discovered nearby in 1857, and some people suggested that the town should become New Zealand’s capital. The town was surveyed on terraces on the eastern side of the Aorere River mouth, but Collingwood – originally called Gibbstown – was never built there. Instead settlers established themselves on the flat land below. The town’s wooden buildings were damaged or destroyed in major fires in 1883, 1897, 1904, 1930 and 1967. The town was named after Admiral Collingwood, who was second-in-command under Lord Nelson in the Battle of Trafalgar. Source; Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
The buildings in three images below are the old Collingwood Courthouse, Police Station and Goal, respectively.

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