picton

In port are Straitsman II and Arahura and plenty of yachts. Waikawa Bay is to the NE of Picton.

MV T Prime ex TPX Prime about to depart from Waimahara Wharf, Picton 8 June 2014 for Korea. Photo Dianna Robjohn.

Claimed by the Captain to be the largest ship to go alongside at Picton. The cruise was diverted there after reported bad weather in the South of South Island.

Aratere outbound Picton 18 Jan 2011

One of two barges to carry windmill parts from Picton across Cook Strait to Otaranga Bay.

Sampogracht at Picton 8/11/08. Unloading blades and turbines from Europe for wind farm at Makara. The two tanks on deck are acid tanks for New Caledonia

PICTON NZ IT WAS A BONNY PLACE

Arahanga clearing Diefenbach Point enroute from Picton to Wellington via Tory Channel. Viewed from above the port bridge wing about 1992

Seen here in Tory Channel taking a load of Hoki into Picton from Cook Strait in about 1991

Seen here in Tory Channel taking a load of Hoki into Picton from Cook Strait in about 1991

At Picton, New Zealand In the late 70s or early 80s. Very unusual to see a Lykes vessel in NZ let alone at such a small port as Picton. Note the yacht on the foredeck.

Purser Graham Wagstaff prepares to begin his loading duties at Picton. Early 90s

Fairstar berthing at Picton, New Zealand in the 70s

Straitsman in her early days on the NZ coast. Seen here in the Marlborough sounds bound to Picton.

Taken after she departed Picton in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand in the late 80s. As seen from Rail Ferry Arahura.

Maxim Gorki at Picton New Zealand in the late 80s I think.

I took this photo of a very nice harbour, down in the Southern Hemisphere in 1974/6. Can anybody guess where it is????