Stone Store Basin attractions.

Restaurant with a history

Dining at the PearTree is part of the Kerikeri experience.
It'slocation, location, location at the water's edge, looking out on the moored boats or the
SS Eliza Hobson tootling in to the jetty.
Whetherit's a PearTree lunch under the trees, or dining on the balcony soaking up the silvery Inlet moonlight, it's a great spot.
Inthe restaurant grounds, a pear tree planted in 1819, is believed to be the oldest fruit
tree in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Phone 09 4078479

Rewa's Village Gateway
Entrance to Rewa's Village

This is a 1969 authentic remakeof a Maori Kaingafrom pre-European times. It gives a very good idea of Maori Village life in those days.
Chances are, you would find the toiletry arrangements interestingly different from the ablutions of today.
Kaingaswere temporary habitations, usually built for some special purpose, (like vegetable growing) in safe locations, away from the main Pa or fortified village .
Wellworth a visit. Plenty of photo opportunities!
Open7 days - 10 am to 5pm.

The Stone Store Basin

Aka the Kerikeri River Estuary, remains as Kerikeri's heart, a constant reminder of
the town's heritage.
Early missionaries intended to name the
area Gloucestertown, but not surprisingly perhaps, the name didn't stick.
A single-lane bridge built during the First World War, crossed the Kerikeri river at the head of the inlet, but this was
removed during the latter part of 2008.
Without it's never-ending flow of traffic,
the Basin has become once again, the
quiet backwater that it always was.
Some other attractions are shown here, which you might like to try after visiting the Stone Store, Kemp's house or Church.

SS Eliza Hobson

The SS Eliza Hobsonis a replica steamship built to the design of a smaller boat, typical of the late 1800's.
Itis a genuine steamboat running off wooden waste from a local mill.
Ourguests have spoken highly of the Kerikeri inlet cruise.
The return triptakes an hour and covers the same routes that similar log-carrying steamboats of yesteryear took.

Kororipo Pa Site

At the time of the arrival of the first European settlers in the early 1800's,
this was the sometime coastal Pa of influential Ngapuhi chiefs, Hongi Hika and his second-in-command Rewa. The pa, after probably centuries of use as a fort
was by this time, a quiet unfortified village where some people of Hongi Hika's and Rewa's sub-tribe Ngai Tawake, were living a peaceful existence.
By 1826Maori had vacated Kororipo and moved North to Whangaroa. In 1828 Hongi Hika died from an infected battle wound. Between 1831 and 1838, Rewa and two of Hongi Hika's sons, Hongi and Puru, sold 13 acres (including the 6 acres of the pa site) to lay missionary James Kemp, for the purpose of farming.
The walk to the pa site is a pleasant 30 minutes or so round trip under gum trees and through regenerating native bush. There is no charge.
It is an historic site, administered by the NZ Department of Conservation.