The Wainuiomata water race is a two kilometre long concrete tunnel / closed race built in the early 1880s to carry drinking water from the upper Wainuiomata Valley to the Wellington water supply system. Using gravity to move water through the hillside, it joined a 30 inch pipe that continued toward Wellington.
Ancient volcanic rocks are scattered along the coastline around Baring Head and much of Wainuiomata’s south coast, adding to...
Looking down at the Wainuiomata River from the Coast Road. The river starts in a podocarp rainforest, then flows...
View of Wainuiomata River on the edge of Richard Prouse Park. This part of the river has a few...
There are numerous unnamed creeks and streams in Wainuiomata Regional Park that feed into the Wainuiomata River including this...
Winter view of Richard Prouse Park in Wainuiomata, with the hills of Wainuiomata Regional Park shrouded in fog.
View from the top of Whakanui Track along a ridgeline, before it connects to the McKerrow Track. Wainuiomata can...
A sign notifying walkers that they are entering the Turakirae Head Scientific Reserve. Situated on the southern coast of...
View of Waterworks Road, a private road. This location looking back from the end of the road where a...
