I had also passed this gun emplacement on my surf trips up the Otago Peninsula but never found the time to stop. Perhaps here more than any of the other locations Baxter had taken licence and shifted elements around, for it is Bird Island in the background that is isolated at high tide and it is also impossible to see the ocean from down at the gun emplacement.

Horse

They found an abandoned gun emplacement on a point of rock that was isolated by the waves at high tide..... They coupled on the concrete floor beside the corroded cables. It was the hour of the hawk, not the hour of the dove. While the waves chiselled at the rocks below, the mythical identification with all living things was achieved.