Richmond Day 1 - Cable Bay
December 1st 2022 A very lazy day today. After a sleep in and a late breakfast the four of us drove over to Cable Bay for lunch. Its original Māori name was Rotokura before the Europeans gave it the inauspicious name of Schroders Mistake after he stranded his cutter on the sandbar in 1843!
The name Cable Bay arose when it became the site where New Zealand’s first overseas cable link came ashore. In February 187
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