Recreational builders have constructed a ‘Jenga-like' structure at Orokawa Bay from timber washed ashore from the Rena wreck.

The 25sqm tower was more than 5m tall and was made from 200x100mm lengths of wood that washed ashore there.

The view from the top of Orokawa Bay shows a destroyed container, and tower built from the timber washed ashore there following Rena's breaking apart on January 8. Photo: Russell Gordon.

Te Puna resident Russell Gordon came across the tower while taking a morning stroll along Orokawa Bay, north of Waihi Beach, on Monday morning.

'When we walked over we saw this structure sitting there on the beach.

'A friend of mine staying up there in Waihi had mentioned there is a pile of timber up there, and he said they will never carry it out of here as it is really heavy stuff.

'You expect it to be very quiet there, but there is a busted up container and still quite a lot of timber spread around.”

Russell says the structure is built from what appears to be tanalised timber panels measuring about 200x100mm.

A group of teenagers sit on top of the ‘Jenga-like' structure built on Orokawa Bay, north of Waihi Beach. Photo: Russell Gordon.

'As you see from the people climbing on it, it is very robust – the timber is very heavy it's certainly not going to blow down.

'They must have just found a whole bunch of timber in one spot and decided to make a bit of a frame.

When Russell arrived at the beach he says there was no-one building the structure.

'It was already there, there were a few teenagers pushing bits and pieces around.

'There was a little tunnel going underneath it and kids playing inside it.

'We thought it was quite enterprising that these people had gone ahead and built something – the kids had something to play on.”

The wood is believed to have come from two containers that washed ashore in this area following the January 8 storm, which sent more than 150 containers overboard.

The tower is close to the container carrying the timber used to build it. Photo: Russell Gordon.

The containers were corralled by Braemar Howells, the company in charge of the removal and processing of containers.

Braemar spokesperson Monique O'Connor says the timber has since been towed out onto a waiting barge and removed.

Monique says Braemar was not aware the timber had been stacked in this fashion and it was removed as part of Braemar's progressive beach cleaning plan.

'It hadn't been a safety concern to us as we weren't aware of the structure.

'We were there to clean up the timber.”