Diamond Harbour
Quiet harbourside settlement across the water from the port, reached by a short passenger ferry.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Diamond Harbour, across the water from Lyttelton near Christchurch, follows the Stoddart family, who farmed these slopes from the eighteen-fifties. It is about a settler who named the bay for what he saw on the water, and the daughter born in his wedding cottage who grew up looking at plants the way a naturalist does. Best heard facing the harbour on a sunny day.
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