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Just a bit further round where i walk:-)) For those who asked about the name...this is the only onfo i could find!
The bay was originally called Vincent’s Bay in 1857 after a Captain John Vincent sailing from Kaiapoi for the estuary, who wrecked a Schooner there being driven in by rough weather.
There was an early incident reported as follows. The ship "Gwalior" left England in April 1853, on the 16th April the ships Captain Davidson threw himself overboard, and the ship was taken over by the chief officer Taylor, who sailed the ship to New Zealand, the passage taking 200 days. It is possible that this now Captain Taylor anchored the "Gwalior" in the bay it being named in his honour, presumably Davidson having made the mistake. However the bay was known as Taylor’s mistake as early as 1853 named that way in the coastal directory as "Taylor’s Mistake sometimes mistaken for Sumner bay".
In 1858 Taylor’s Mistake was the generally adopted name after a Captain Taylor of the United States Ship Volga who is said to have mistaken the bay for the entrance of Lyttelton Harbour. There is also a Captain Taylor of the ship Chrystolite who has been attributed as having the bay named after him. It is unlikely these two later incidents caused the naming.
The Maori name is Te One Poto (Little Beach).
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@Monique: Thank you Monique:-) I too love the Maori name, that is the original in my eyes too. Though Maori were imigrants also so who knows??!!!! I'm glad you have added NZ to your list, you are not that far away:-)) More than welcome to visit!
@Eric Fry: Hi Eric, It is a wonderful beach. It doesn't really get crowded but then I don't know many beaches in NZ that do. I've relaxed on that beach many a time in all kinds of seasons and its always chilled. i have to say i cannot imagine it crowded!
@Veronelle: Thank you so much Veronelle
@Observing: The houses you see on the beach are little holiday baches and thats all there is down there. The houses you see to the right are on the hill above the bay. There is no village its just a beach and car park and a few baches and the road ends there. I don't live here, I'm just over the other side of the hill that I'm standing on, not the one in the photo:-))
@MadScientist: Hi ms, there are very strong winds up there sometimes and it does get the snow and frost in winter!
@Kylie Greenan: OMG what a coincidence...it must be Papa Bears beach then:-) I will think of him on my walks in future:-)) Thanks chuck:-)) Hope your weekend is going well:-))
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