On the road from Takaka to Totaranui lies the small settlement of Pohara. Just past the Pohara Boat Club, the cement works and Port Tarakohe, the road passes through a tunnel in the rock. On the other side of the tunnel is Cathedral Rock, which is popular with rockclimbers. The bay on which Port Tarakohe sits is called Limestone Bay, and the cement works were established there in the early 1900s to quarry the thick belt of limestone that covers the Tarakohe area. This climber is on White Pointer (Grade 16).
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