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Huatoki walkway: history unveiled
It is interesting that following a river cuts across the urban city landscape and the corresponding histories of place. Nature and heritage are often obscured when the experience of place is dominated by being in buildings, and walking, taking a bus or driving the streets. To follow a river is to connect them all.
This is across the street from the car parks and the entrance to the Huatoki walkway proper
This is the under pass to which the sign is adjacent
The track is quite wide at points, with the banks off to the left. Once again looking upstream
This looks like a collection of boulders, but once was a large marker rock used by local iwi (tribes). It was dynamited in the colonial era
On the opposite bank of the river are the footings of an old water powered flour mill
Another pile of boulders, another dynamited marker rock
The area of the stream bank around the second rock
Looking back downstream toward the area of the second rock
Grinding stones from the several mills that once were located here
The view looking upward toward the end of the town centre part of the walkway. If needed further sites are located beyond
Signpost marking the end of this passage of the walkway
