Sumner Beach
Sandy surf beach with a volcanic sea cave rock, tide pools and a seaside village promenade.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sumner Beach in Christchurch stands you beside Cave Rock, the basalt outcrop Māori call Tuawera, and tells the old story of why its name means cut down as if by fire. It follows Tūrakipō, a chief of Ōpawāho versed in makutu, or black magic, and his rejected courtship of Hineao, daughter of Te Ake of Akaroa. Listen with a hand on the dark stone at the end of the beach.
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