We visited the longest pier “of its type” in the southern hemisphere, at 660 metres, and it just happens to be one cove over from where Cook, in the Endeavour, first dropped anchor in 1769.
Built between 1926 and 1929 in Tolaga Bay, its use peaked in 1936. Use declined steadily after that, especially during WWII, when activity centralized elsewhere.
The last ship visited in 1966, and it fell into disrepair. Locals banded together in 1999 to form a charitable foundation to save it. They raised $5.5MM, and accomplished what was deemed then to be an impossible feat.
It is a major tourist attraction today, situated as it is in such spectacular vistas.
It was a short but a near vertical freakin’ hike to see “Cook’s Cove”.
63 and free 
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