Welcome to Auckland’s original ‘Municipal Destructor’. Everyone, like me, know it as Victoria Park Market – a super popular open air market through the 80's to 2000's – a great place to buy your crystals and tie-dies etc! I've always known that it was originally the city rubbish dump – when the city was waaaay smaller). There is more to the story, of course. It was originally created in reaction to a bubonic plague scare in Sydney. For sanitary reasons it was built to burn Auckland’s rubbish and waste while using the heat generated to provide electricity to power the city. Sounds pretty clever eh, and I guess we were plague free. However, we must have been breathing some seriously toxic smoke fumes! That 38 metre tall chimney must have helped a little but don't forget all the horse manure and night carts, they were definitely smellier times. The municipal destructor is now a gentrified place that's home to restaurants and businesses, like the superb Milenta restau...
Drawn from the back of the Treasure Island camp site at Pataua South. That's the estuary on the left and the ocean on the right with what I think is an eroding volcanic cone in the centre. The view from the top of the cone is pretty good too with views to the Poor Knights, Whangarei Heads and the Tutukaka coast.
The kids had a ball on the flying fox you can see in the foreground of this scrolling version below. Some friendly Pukekos kept me company while I sketched. What a great spot to camp!
The kids had a ball on the flying fox you can see in the foreground of this scrolling version below. Some friendly Pukekos kept me company while I sketched. What a great spot to camp!
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