BEAUTIFUL TASMAN BAY
IN 1842 “In the morning we found ourselves in Blind or Tasman’s Bay, near the bottom of which Nelson is situated. The wind favoured us very much till evening, when it became unfavourable and too light to enable us to reach Nelson to-night, as we made up our minds to. So after firing several guns to get a boat from the town, we cast anchor about ten miles from it in the middle of the Bay. “Tasman’s Bay is most magnificent. It is surrounded by a succession of peaked hills or rather mountains, most of them green to their summits. It is not, we are told, subject to constant and high winds, which form a great objection to Port Nicholson. The wind is generally moderate and is also varied in its directions, more than at Wellington, blowing as it does from every point of the compass."—Extract. J. W. Barnicat’s diary. Feb., 1842.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 April 1937, Page 19 (Supplement)
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155BEAUTIFUL TASMAN BAY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 April 1937, Page 19 (Supplement)
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