In May 1826, Thomas Shepard, a young draftsman stood on the deck of Captain James Herd’s barque Rosana and drew a quick sketch of the South Coast and the entrance to Wellington Harbour. He described it like this.
“Half the width is full of rocks so the entrance is rather dangerous, left side of the entrance are low rocky barron hills and on the right side are high rocky barron hills.”
These new paintings look again at those hills.
