Blue Spur is a locality inland from Hokitika in the Westland District of New Zealand.
[1] It can be accessed by road along the "Blue Spur Tourist Drive" from the centre of Hokitika.
During the late 1860s, the time of the West Coast gold rush, "The Spur" (as the locals always called it) was inhabited by more than 2,500 people.
Since around the year 2000 the area is gradually being rediscovered and repopulated as it offers rural living close to town.
Miners frequently talk about mining down to the "blue clay", thus a "blue spur" could somehow elucidate the hasty process of digging for the gold pursuing a blueish layer of clay.