Governors Bay
Sheltered harbourside village beneath the Port Hills, with a historic stone homestead and garden.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Governors Bay, on Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch, follows Thomas Henry Potts, a Victorian naturalist who arrived in the eighteen fifties with glass cases of English plants and made the Ōhinetahi estate his home. It touches his sandstone house, his garden advised from Kew, and a quarrel over hawks and lambs. Best heard at the head of the bay, looking up at the tree-lined slopes.
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