West Coast: Ship Creek (3)

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West Coast: Ship Creek (3)
West Coast: Ship Creek (3)

Ship Creek is a small river that flows into an area of coastal swamp forest on the West Coast of the South Island. This ancient kahikatea swamp forest provides a glimpse back in time, to what much of the West Coast may have looked like prior to human settlement. The water is dark with tannin from the decay of vegetation, so wonderful reflections abound.

The name "Ship Creek" derives from the discovery of part of the hull of a wrecked ship at this location in the 1870s. A piece of the wreck was sent to Wellington for examination. Details of the construction indicated that the timbers came from the wreck of the SS “Schomberg”, a clipper ship on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne, that struck an uncharted reef and was wrecked on Australia’s Shipwreck Coast on 27 Dec.1855.
Here’s the astonishing piece of this story: the parts of the hull found at Ship Creek had drifted 2,000 km across the Tasman Sea from the coast of Victoria, to come ashore on the beach north of Haast!!!
Over time, the build-up of sand led to the wreckage being inland from the high tide mark on the shores of Ship Creek, and becoming covered in scrub...

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Taken on: November 18, 2022
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