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Oyster Bay

Oyster Bay

Oyster Bay, 19 kilometres from Picton, is the main settlement on Port Underwood. Roads lead to the far eastern side of Port Underwood and south along its western shore to Rārangi. In this picture Oyster Bay is in the foreground, the entrance to Port Underwood is in the middle distance, and Cloudy Bay and the headlands of the Marlborough coast – White Bluffs/Te Parinui o Whiti and Cape Campbell – are in the distance.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Marlborough places – Arapawa Island to Port Underwood, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31844/oyster-bay (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 9 May 2011, updated 18 June 2015.

Comments

Lawrence Mitten
28 November 2024
I was camped in the bay while working on the Cook Strait cable project. We used to row out in a small boat and place a net in the water and then we would drag the net in and normally would get about a 100 flounder and a few other types of fish as well. At low tide we could walk along the shore line pick up a few oysters as well. This time was the best days of my life, I later went and joined the army and served in the Vietnam war, on my return from Vietnam I went back to my trade a brick layer, and at 35 years of age I joined the NZ Police and retired from the Police department at 60 years of age.