Ambury Regional Park
Coastal farm park on reclaimed harbour land, with grazing animals, ancient lava fields and wading bird colonies.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ambury Regional Park in Auckland opens with what you can smell today against what stood on this shoreline fifty years ago: an open sewage treatment site spilling waste across the Manukau Harbour mudflats. It follows the regional authority's slow buyout of the land from the 1960s, the educational farm that opened in 1977, the park's formal 1987 opening, and a later restoration project that rebuilt the shoreline. Listen for what the harbour sounds like today.
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