Birdlings Flat
Steep gravel beach where agates, jasper and petrified wood wash up among weathered baches.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Birdlings Flat, a gravel beach and bach settlement on Banks Peninsula south of Christchurch, is about the people who work its shoreline. You will meet Vince and Colleen Burke, who spent decades bent over these stones, and learn where the glowing pebbles at your feet began their journey. It also reaches back to an older harvest on this shore, known to Ngāi Tahu as Poranui. Best heard crouching on the gravel near the car park, at low tide.
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