At Koukourarata/Port Levy by John O'Connor
with Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Helen Jacobs & Mark Pirie, June 3 2001 we parked the car by the memorial to Taawao, the Ngapuhi missionary which greets you as you arrive on the final flat that horseshoes round the bay to the wharf & a collection of sheds & boatsheds -- it was full tide, a spring tide, the water foreshortening the hills by a myth or 2. we were too close yet close enough