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Story: Beachcombing

Pukerua Bay

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Pukerua Bay

Bernie McMillan and grandson Shaun Joslin comb the beach at Pukerua Bay, north of Wellington. They appear to have found part of an old fishing net.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1998/3576/7A

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Carl Walrond, Beachcombing – Beachcombing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7189/pukerua-bay (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009.