After the history lesson, I took Knight for a drive of the peninsula so he could point out items of interest. “A lot of these cribs down towards the heads were originally built on the seaward side of the road, but erosion forced them to be relo­cated to the landward side, although shifting sand at times buried houses on that side . . . These ‘carvings’ at the Otakou marae were actually cast in concrete in the 1940s, due to a shortage of carvers. Ngai Tahu holds its Waitangi Day celebrations here every third year . . . See those parallel rows of stakes sticking above the water? They mark the position of the tramline which was used to haul wood. The rails are thought to be there still, beneath the mud . . . All the sand at Sandymount came ashore in about the 1840s—it’s a very unstratified deposit—but nobody knows where it originated from. It was too early to have come down the rivers from gold workings in Central Otago . . . For a time in about 1910, Broad Bay and the peninsula were the Queenstown of Dunedin. Boating and yacht racing on the harbour were very popular, and lots of more affluent people built weekend cribs. Then the motor car itself became the outing, and other roads became popular. You have to remember that the harbourside road down the peninsula was built for horses, and was just gravel until the late 1950s. For cars, it was passable, but not great.”