Restaurant with a history Dining at the PearTree is part of the Kerikeri experience. It's location, location, location at the water's edge, looking out on the moored boats or the SS Eliza Hobson tootling in to the jetty. Whether it's a PearTree lunch under the trees, or dining on the balcony soaking up the silvery Inlet moonlight, it's a great spot. In the restaurant grounds, a pear tree planted in 1819, is believed to be the oldest fruit tree in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Phone 09 4078479	Entrance to Rewa's Village This is a 1969 authentic remake of a Maori Kainga from 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. Kaingas were temporary habitations, usually built for some special purpose, (like vegetable growing) in safe locations, away from the main Pa or fortified village. Well worth a visit. Plenty of photo opportunities! Open 7 days - 10 am to 5pm	The Stone Store Basin Back to See & Do PgeBack to History Page   A KA 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 the Stone Store, Kemp House or St. James's Church. SS Eliza Hobson The SS Eliza Hobson is a replica steamship built to the design of a smaller boat, typical of the late 1800's. It is a genuine steamboat running off wooden waste from a local mill. Our guests have spoken highly of the Kerikeri inlet cruise. The return trip takes 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 1826 Maori 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.