Tambo Shipwreck Monument

The reconstructed schooner Tambo commemorates the 42 ships wrecked crossing the bar. The Tambo, grounded near here in a storm in 1866, was dragged along the beach in a flood. It was salvaged in 1980 by Allen and Shirley Crowley and donated to Heritage Hokitika. What's here is a concrete replica of the salvaged vessel plus the actual anchor.