Welcome to the archive images of Tamaki Makaurau
 
 
 
Week 53
29 October 2006
 
 
 
Cockle Bay
 
Of the names of the 303 suburbs in the Greater Auckland area, 57 can be found in the British Isles with at least 23 of them having unique connections with Scotland, or are based on Scottish family names or noble titles.  Cockle Bay, an eastern suburb of Auckland is one of the suburbs with this connection - Cockle Bank in Inverclyde and Cockle Loch in North Ayrshire.  Cockle Bay which is known as Tuwakamana in Maori,  has a safe and picturesque beach, picnic tables and a Pentanque Club.
 
 
Quote for the week
 
Photography is like fishing.  You go out in the morning with no idea of what the trip will bring.
Sometimes luck is on your side and all your crab pots are full of prime Lobsters.  Other
times you get nothing.  - Bob Croxford, "From Cornwall With Love" by Bob Croxford
 
 
 
Sunrise over Cockle Bay
 
 
 
 
Because there are no waves, ducks believe the sea to be a large dam!
 
 
 
 
During summer months and daylight savings, it is difficult to find
an empty spot as the locals feast on the traditional ..... fish and chips!
 
 
 
 
No shortage of fish for the gulls either
 
 
 
 
The shell banks of Cockle Bay Beach
 
 
 
 
 Cockle shells - the common name for the live cockle is bivalve mollusks
Shellfish restrictions around Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula have been
in place for 7 years yet people are still ignoring it.  The shellfish limits in
Auckland/Coromandel are 50 cockles, pipi, tuatua daily per person.
Everywhere else - 150 daily per person
 
(Tuatua is the common name for two species of surf clam
native to New Zealand )
 
 
 
 
Cockle Bay Beach
 
 
 
 
From the beach, looking west
 
 
 
This large Pohutukawa tree which produces a red crop of flowers in summer is called
Te Tuni a Manawatere by the Ngai Tai people, referring to the legend of one of
their ancestors, Manawatere.  Manawatere was a voyager and explorer who is said
to have arrived in the Hauraki Gulf on the back of a taniwha.  When he landed on
the beach at Owairoa (Howick), he made his tuhi (mark) on a Pohutukawa tree, not
far from Owairoa, using red ochre as a sign to those following, that he had found
a place to settle
 
(Taniwha - pronounced tuhn-i-fuh - can be a tribal guardian or monster
which lives in the ocean and inland waters, hiding in deep pools,
rivers, lakes and dark caves)
 
 
 
 
 Pied Oystercatcher or Torea - the most common oystercatcher in New Zealand
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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