A PS to the last post...

Governors Bay, donated to the Governors Bay Heritage Trust by Gavin Bain.

Here's a surprising photo - one I had not seen until two days ago. The quality is not very good (it's a photo taken through glass) but it shows clearly two structures: the lower one, a private stone and wood jetty on the foreshore below Waitahuna; the more distant one (which by the time of this photo looks more like the breakwater in the Wolfe lithograph of the previous post) on the beach at Sandy Bay. The attribution on the back of the framed photo says 'Governors Bay c 1890'. This is a puzzle however because there is no jetty visible at Percivals (Sandy Bay) Point and that jetty was constructed in 1883. So we have a timeline, of sorts, for the four jetties (at least) in Governors Bay.

Government jetty, Sandy Bay - 1859/60
Waitahuna - date unknown; perhaps shortly after the Sandy Bay jetty which soon proved inadequate
Dyers Point - 1874
Percivals Point - 1883

All of which goes to show just how vital sea transport was in the early years of settlement and how such access was constantly compromised by the ongoing silting of the upper harbour.