Paradise Quarry Ltd

New Zealand's human history began some eight hundred years ago, but the skeleton of the land we live in was formed over thirty million years ago. And it certainly looked a lot differently to the way it looks now.

As the last Ice Age melted the rising waters formed what is now Whangarei harbour. The harbour was once a tropical lagoonal basin, surrounded by a hinterland cloaked in primeval forest. Once part of the ocean floor, fragments of ancient coral, crustacean and mollusc shells have been captured within the stone. Some of the best examples of this stone can be found in a place ...... learn more