The Red Rocks Of Te Ngarara – Port Levy

During the late 1820’s, not many European ships sailed into Ōhinehou (Lyttelton Harbour) and those that did carried the rough characters that were the whalers, sealers and merchants. One of these merchant ships was from the Australian firm of Cooper and Levey and its Captain was William B. Rhodes. At the time, the most populated …

Canterbury’s First Flushable Toliet

Legend has it that this was the first flushable toilet in Canterbury!!! Of course, more modern now than when first built by the Rhodes brothers at Purau Bay in Lyttelton Harbour in 1853. A HUGE thank you to Chris Gardiner who welcomed me onto his earthquake shattered Purau property that has been in his family …