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Views Across the Harbour...Quarantine Island and Port Chalmers.
Patches of seagrass | rimurēhia (Zostera muelleri) revealed at low tide.
A very large cruise ship at Port Chalmers.
27 January 2026 - The Discovery Princess was in port for a bit less than 13 hours before heading on to Milford Sound.  The ship, which has 1,830 cabins and 19 decks, is 217 feet 6 1/4 inches high and 1,083 feet long, and can hold 3,660 guests and a crew of 1,346.  It did its inaugural cruise in March 2022.
27 January - Maersk Rio Negro (length 286m, width 40m) and in the foreground seaweed-covered submarine power cables revealed by low tide.  In 2021, Aurora Energy put in the cables, replacing 1.85 km of overhead lines and six lattice towers and upgrading power to the northern part of the Peninsula and Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua.
30 January - Anaxagoras (length 186m, beam 35m) with the wildlife cruise ship Monarch and a tug boat in the foreground.
30 January - German cruise ship Vasco da Gama (nicko cruises Schiffsreisen GmbH, length 219m, width 31m, built 1993) arriving at Port Chalmers.  The ship carries a maximum of 1,000 passengers.  It was on a 175-day around-the-world cruise which departed from Hamburg on 7 November 2025 and was to return on 1 May 2026.  The previous stop was Lyttleton and the next stop Oban.
A nearby track goes out to the Portobello Peninsula for additional views and informative signs on the coastal environment.
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