Flat Shea visits the longest wharf in the world???? Really????

No not really...but Im pretty sure its the longest wharf in New Zealand and some local might try and tell you its the longest in the world (pretty close but not quite).
 The day that  Flat Shea visited the wharf at Tologa Bay the whole of New Zealand was having the First lot of really cold weather we will have coming into Winter.   It was freezing and super windy.   It was so windy that Breeana and Flat Shea only got half way across the bridge before they had to run back to escape the gale force winds and freezing rain.  If you walk at a good pace it might take you about 10 minutes to walk to the end. If you look closely at the pictures you can see where old train tracks once were because when it was first used it was used to move the supplies to and from the ships that came in.

Interesting Facts:

Tolaga Bay was named by James Cook. The Māori name is Uawa Nui A Ruamatua, or Uawa for short.

The wharf was built to provide access to this town when, back in the 1830s, there was a thriving flax trade involving early European traders. The bay itself is quite shallow and so a long wharf was required—660metres to be precise. That’s the longest in New Zealand-Aotearoa, but not the longest in the world. That distinction belongs to Southend Pier in Essex, UK. It’s 2.16 kms long.

Having said that, there is a longer wharf, but it’s not a pier type construction like Tolaga Bay and Southend.  The shipping wharf at the Port of New Orleans is 3.4 kms long.  It can take 15 container ships at a time.

 you can see just how far the wharf goes in these pictures!