Big Omaha & nearby

Matakana 1921	The Whangateau Harbour
	Bidrsall bullock teams


Warkworth 1920s	Matakana 2010
No organic back then	St Andrews Presbyterian Church – Matakana Country Park
St Andrews Church	Big Omaha – site of the second shipyard
Looking towards the mouth of the Whangateau Harbour from the Big Omaha wharf – recently restored	Looking up river from the Big Omaha wharf
The Meiklejohn Bridge at Big Omaha	John & Cordelia’s home 2010
The head of the Mahurangi River	The Mahurangi River towards Warkworth
Looking downstream on the Tamuhunga Stream – site of first shipyard – close to home	The falls on the Tamuhunga Stream
The basin on the Tamuhanga Stream – towards the falls	David Darroch’s shipyard at Omaha
Overlooking the Darroch shipyard	Work in progress Darroch yard
Darroch shipyard	The gravestone of JSM in the Symonds Street cemetery in Auckland
Headstones at the Matakana Cemetery

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The sides of the Meiklejohn cairn – Whangateau Cemetery
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A map of the shipyards around Omaha area