Wide Wednesday . . . Connected

Another drive and walk day with lunch under a blue sky.  This is Cosy Nook a little cove connected to Scotland by Captain George Thomson, Harbourmaster of Bluff, who was the first proper European settler and named his property Cozy Neuk, after his homeland Scottish village.
It is an historical Maori settlement site.  In the 1820's it consisted of 40-50 whare (houses). It was a bustling centre of exchange and contact between Maori and European traders, with sealers and flax merchants trading for iron goods, muskets, powder and shot.  Thank you Bob for keeping it wide on Wednesdays.
This was our lunch spot.  
In the morning we walked the loop track at Round Hill which was a major centre for gold mining from the mid 1860's to the 1950's.  We saw evidence of hand dug waterways and earth dams.  The lovely daughter and I felt an eerie feeling standing in a logging tramway where the sides were taller than us and it would have been all hand dug.  This area had the largest and southern most Chinese settlement in New Zealand.  The Chinese miners dug the water races and Port's Race once carried and collected water for a distance of 40 kilometers.  
The extra is the regenerating Kamahi forest.