Sign to slow down, Hawks Crag

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DescriptionHawks Crag, Lower Buller Gorge, West Coast.1960s.Entry in the 2020 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt.Map^[1]

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Location (city or town)Buller GorgeEventSign to slow down, Hawks Crag

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CommentsFay Gilson
Has not changed since i was living on the Coast

Patrick Carmody
Imagine trying to get though for construction today. " Mate it will be perfectly fine " " But you want to what next what river! You're dreaming mate".

Colin Harman
Patrick Carmody that so true,

Andrea Walker
It’s very exciting when you meet a big truck coming the other way!

Nola Dorothy
Not a place I would linger!!

Del Godfrey
Amazing piece of engineering skill!

Karen Scull
Drove through there many a time
Looked amazing in heavy rain, had the rock on one side of the car and a curtain of water on the other

Demelza Taylor
Russian Roulette....have had 1 very close call

Spr SimRacer
Demelza Taylor plenty of time to see anything coming the other way. Lights at fern arch are worse, just mirrors worked fine.

Colin Waterman
How did it get that name.... Hawks crag?

Spr SimRacer
Colin Waterman
Hawks Crag is a prominent landmark in the Lower Buller Gorge, where the road has been cut into a cliff that drops into the Buller River. In 1955, two elderly prospectors, Frederick Cassin and Charles Jacobsen, made the first discovery of uranium on the roadside, about a kilometre downstream. The area is made up of a rock type called Hawks Crag Breccia (pronounced ‘bretcha’) – a mass of angular fragments, probably formed by floods near a mountain range where rock was being eroded rapidly. At the time it seemed a most unlikely place to find uranium, so had been overlooked by prospectors.

Spr SimRacer
Thanks for asking, I never knew until then lol.

Colin Waterman
Spr SimRacer awesome mate thanks for that.

Brian Langton
Should have seen it in the fortes trucks with rear dual wheels the outside one used to hang over the edge the drivers at Gibbs transport Westport told the mechanics to make sure there was plenty of air in the inside one.

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