Le Bons Bay
Kilometre-wide sandy beach in a quiet farming valley, with no shops and a river mouth at one end.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Le Bons Bay, on Banks Peninsula outside Christchurch, follows seven centuries of appetite in one quiet valley. It starts with the river that fed Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe and Ngāi Tahu, then turns to the whalers and the tangled story of the bay's name. Best heard standing near the river mouth, looking back up the valley.
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