Ōruapaeroa Travis Wetland Nature Heritage Park
Restored freshwater wetland on a former dairy farm, laced with boardwalks and bird hides.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Ōruapaeroa Travis Wetland in Christchurch is about appetite: what this swamp has fed, and who got to eat from it. It starts with the eels and birds that made it a Ngāi Tahu food-gathering place, then follows a ten-year-old farmhand through his summer holidays in the late 1930s, when the drained paddocks ran on milk. Best heard out on the boardwalks, with the water around you.
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