En route pour les HelpX pour quelques jours de « repos » On va surtout enfin retrouver un lit après 14 nuits d’affilée en tente! D’ailleurs la fatigue se ressent dans les jambes de Martin qui n’avance pas très vite On rejoint nos hôtes vers les 16 h Et on est juste éblouis par la beauté des lieux .. on y restera peut être plus longtemps que prévu Le soir après manger on va nourrir les anguilles du jardin accompagné de Snoopy
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ARAHURA VALLEY
3rd Decembre 2022
The Arahura River, for a time called the Brunner River after the explorer Thomas Brunner,[1] is a river located on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
It is approximately 56 kilometres (35 mi) in length and flows into the Tasman Sea eight kilometres north of Hokitika, next to the Arahura Pa.
It is an important place to Māori for the resource of pounamu (greenstone), only found in a few places in the South Island of New Zealand. When the region was sold to the British Crown in 1860 by the chiefs of Poutini Ngāi Tahu the rights to pounamu on the Arahura River were meant to be retained, these rights were ignored in the deed (Arahura Deed) . In 1990s Ngāi Tahu and the government negotiated for ownership of pounamu from the river to be restored and this was settled in the Ngai Tahu (Pounamu Vesting) Act 1997.[2][3][4]
The lower reaches of the Arahura River were a major producer of gold in the past – and extensively mined, but are now worked out.
In 2009 the 120-year-old dual road/rail bridge across the river was replaced. Sections of the old bridge were reused elsewhere on the rail network and one complete span was retained for a local heritage park.[5]
The river is the subject of a 2016 song of the same name by Marlon Williams.