'New Zealand Odyssey', published in 1989 by Heinemann, was authored by me, Don Donovan (who did the text and illustrations) and Euan Sarginson, who did the photography and design. In this series of blog posts, I will publish some of my drawings.
This museum park lies on the side of the river near Paeroa where the first European settlers landed at Puke Wharf. It was, in 1987, and probably still is, a bric à brac shop of things to do with the sea surrounded by old ships and bits and pieces of marine equipment.
The flag pole was wonderfully nautical with all its jolly guys and halyards; the museum building looked to me suspiciously like a retired post office. I found out later that it was, in fact, the old post office from a gold mining village at Waitekauri. The Coromandel Range of hills looms in the background.
© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz
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