Centenary Lakes Nature Play Space
Nature-based playground on reclaimed wetland with a hand-pump watercourse and shady lakeside trails.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Centenary Lakes Nature Play Space in Cairns follows Hugo Flecker, the radiotherapist and naturalist whose name the surrounding gardens and lakes still carry, and his decades chasing an unexplained killer in the waters off Cairns beaches. It also traces the Naturalists' Club he ran for twenty-five years, and how a stretch of swamp behind today's playground became a lake in the nineteen seventies, later folded into the city's centenary. Stand by the freshwater lake to spot the ducks and herons sharing the space with the children playing nearby.
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