Ocean Bay

Continuing on, the next bay is Ocean Bay, so named because from here the first view of the ocean can be seen. For many years after 1850 it was the home of Michael Aldridge who in one of his whale boats took the Rev. Ironside to Tua Marina to bury the dead in 1843. He is buried in the bay. For a number of years after 1905 the Rev. John Crump, a retired missionary, owned the bay and conducted a very successful boarding school for boys.

At the present time some of the old pupils are trying to organise a re-union. It was in this bay that Messrs Clifford and Weld in August 1847, unloaded their shipments of sheep from Australia and then drove them to start their huge Flaxbourne sheep station.