Otakamiro point Muriwai, the land that time remembered.
Our property in Kumeu stands on land once submerged 2 kilometres below the sea 20 million years ago.
Then, a deepening sea (Waitemata Basin) collected sediments washed from massive marine volcanoes in the west and a coastline to the North composed mainly of durable greywacke rocks.
Collins Bay with pillow lavas and a large block of conglomerate.
The south end of Collins Bay and the Conglomerate Block’s Story.
Cobbles, boulders, and gravel forming the conglomerate block in the picture are on a journey that began in the early Miocene.