What Enclosure Bay looked like with no seawall (video)

Children in Enclosure Bay 1961 (video!)

Children having fun in the timeless fashion they do down in Enclosure Bay.

Enclosure Bay 1957 (video!)

This is what Enclosure Bay looks like at 1 am with a full moon. This photo was taken on new years day 2007.

 

A fantail (piwakawaka in Maori) seen flittering around in the bush beside the bach.

 

Another bird the Tauhou in the Maori language means "stranger" Wax eye, white eye or silver eye in english.

 

Heres a sight my great grandmother would not have seen back in the 1920s. Kereru or New Zealand bush pigeon are getting almost common on Waiheke Island. Having no possum to destroy the bush certainly helps. This photo was taken sitting on the deck of the bach, this bird would turn up every morning in the puriri tree.

 

A panarama looking back at Enclosure Bay taken from the outside reef.

 

Some of the different moods of the sea and sky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The shearers hut with what will be Empire Avenue behind. There are a few people sitting close to the hut.

 

A closer look at the new holiday homes seen in the photo below up Empire Avenue.

 

Another angle of Enclosure Bay, with the shearers hut central with other batches going up Empire Avenue.

 

Looking down the valley sans pine trees late 20s, the only structures the shearers hut and Dorothy Nugents House.

 

More aerial photos.

 

 

 

A smorgasboard of aerial photos of Enclosure Bay, you can have fun trying to date them.

 

 

 

 

The first aerial photo showing Enclosure Bay. There were a number of photos taken of areas on Waiheke that were for sale. I think I can just make out the shearers hut. (remember you can click on any of these pictures to make them bigger)

 

Pohutukawa.

 

Obviously this photo was taken at the same time as the one below. You can see someone in the boatshed.

 

Moving on a few years.. these interesting two shots may have been taken withen minutes if each other judging by the batches present and the plant growth.... colour enters the picture... these were taken , what , late fifties early sixties?

 

 

Enclosure Bay tide out, this shot must have been taken late 30s .. compared to the shot below, there is a bit more foliage apparent, also two dinghies on the beach (and so it begins).

 

Another before and after , what a difference a few years make, the more modern photo must be fifties.. theres a road and electicity

 

 

Ok... its fun quiz time..
question... What is this beach!, clue, there is alot of SAND on it, some would say more sand then than now, though it is still quite SANDY. Clue two... its not Enclosure Bay, also its not near Taupo... well ok on a global scale it actualy is quite near Taupo.