Living Heritage Homepage Home Our Project Research Process Our Team Curriculum Links Credits	Elmwood Normal School Boulder Bay on Banks Peninsula Research Part of our outdoor education programme in 2002 was a trip to Boulder Bay. Our very first sight of a rock-strewn shore line indicated exactly why Boulder Bay was called Boulder Bay. The beach was nothing but boulders and large rocks! However we were soon clambering over rocks like mountain-goats, as we went from rock pool to rock pool identifying sea creatures. Starfish, sea urchins, crabs, sea lettuce - the list seemed endless.     Along the line of the cliff face nestled a collection of old shacks and holiday huts. We noticed that one even had a bath tub sitting outside! Gumboots on a doorstep and washing hanging on a line seemed to say that people were around but we saw no signs of life. Later, when we returned to school, we discovered that some of these baches had been built as long ago as 1910, and had been lived in by some very colourful and eccentric characters, including one called "the hermit of Boulder Bay".   Written by Max, Sylvie and Hannah References: The Port Hills of Christchurch, Gordon Ogilvie, Reed, 1978 Collins Guide to the New Zealand Seashore, Dave Gunson, Collins, 1983
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