Myers Park Auckland Nz

Koa- Beautiful sunny day + not a cloud in the sky . I have been sitting in the Sun on our front porch , taking in some vitamine D - ( I have been told it is very good for ones Health . So, I just jumped off this fast moving world for a good hour . While doing so , for no reason at all , Memories of Myers Park flashed into my mind . Especially "AdamsBruce Icecream Parlour " off Kangahape Rd . My grandma use to take me their for a treat. A huge ice cream then a walk in that beautiful park, come out in Grey st . Past the old Chinese shops , onto a bus + home . I thought I would take another walk ( in my mind ) on the net . I found this article on that wonderful park.
Source -www.kroad.com/heritage/myers-park

AUCKLAND'S HIDDEN TREASURE
THE WAIHOROTIU:
The Myers Park gully is the watershed area at the head of the Horotiu Stream or Queen Street River as it was often called.

This stream had carved out the valley over six million years ago as part of the great Waitemata River system. The mouth of that enormous river had emptied into the Pacific beyond Great Barrier Island.

When the ocean levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age (15,000 years ago) the Waitemata river valley was flooded, creating the Hauraki Gulf and Waitemata Harbour around 7,000 years ago. Auckland: the tide goes out.

The Tamaki River, Grafton Gulley stream and Queen Street valley are all surviving tributaries of that ancient river system.

Around 1845 (or thereabouts) a stone house was completed on the Karangahape ridge. It looked down the valley which had been created by the stream - the same valley in which Myers Park was created in 1913-1915.

The house was owned by the jewish merchant David Nathan - its story is told here: Scoria House. This residence had a view to the north of the fledgling town of Auckland (which at that time extended no further than about Victoria Street).