Zoo
Butterfly Creek
10 Tom Pearce Drive, Auckland Airport, Auckland 2022
Tropical butterfly garden and zoo with New Zealand's only saltwater crocodiles by the runway.
This guide to Butterfly Creek beside Auckland's airport follows two saltwater crocodiles, Scar and Goldie, from their trouble with wildlife officers in North Queensland to their April 2009 flight south into a tropical butterfly farm. It traces how Scar earned his name and Goldie's earlier brush with fame at the Cannes Film Festival. Watch the water closely: Goldie likes to sink to the bottom and lie still.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.