Welcome to the archive images of Tamaki Makaurau
 
 
 
Week 59
10 December 2006
 
 
Orakei Wharf
 
This week's images continue down Tamaki Drive with our next stop being Orakei Wharf at sunset.
Orakei Wharf lies at Takaparawhau Point and on the right lies
Kelly Tarltons Underwater World
 
 
 
Quote for the Week
 
A photographer is always in a state of preparing himself for a given moment ....
we have only an instant in which to think and act.  - Arnold Newman
 
 
 
On the way to the wharf, this swimmer was spotted at Biddicks Bay
 
 
 
 
A historic Gun Emplacement on Takaparawhau Point (Bastion Point)
 
 
 
 
A sailboat coming in and a ship leaving
 
 
 
 
Blue sails against Auckland City
 
 
 
 
The setting sun shining on Tamaki Yacht Club
 
 
 
 
Another sailboat coming into Okahu Bay Boat Harbour.
Behind it the wave screens can be seen
 
 
 
 
Auckland City set in orange
 
 
 
 
Looking down Orakei Wharf
 
 
 
 
Looking towards Takaparawha Point and Tamaki Drive.  In 1959 the Ngati Whatua
gifted this headland to the Crown to serve as a defence post against a feared
Russian invasion.  The land was given on the condition that it would be
returned when no longer required ....
 
 
 
 
The silhouette of a father and his two little sons fishing
 
 
 
 
 
 
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