Description
Looking downwards in a northerly direction from Bluff Hill, showing Port Ahuriri in the earliest days of European settlement. A Maori pa or kainga is on a small island immediately below, inside the opening to Ahuriri Spit. Three low dwellings, a fire, and three people are inside a palisade on the island, and canoes with a fourth person are on the right. There is a small settlement on Ahuriri spit with one larger house, canoes pulled up outside, half-a-dozen smaller houses and a fishing boat on shore. The hills of northern Hawkes Bay are in the background
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Alexander Turnbull Library
Location
Ahuriri Estuary, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Country
New Zealand
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
Ahuriri Harbour also known as Ahuriri Lagoon or locally just Ahuriri, was a former estuary and tidal lagoon just north of present-day Napier. (Wikipedia)
