Wānaka Willow Tree
Lone crack willow growing from a lakeshore fence post, framed by water and mountain peaks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Wānaka Willow Tree, the lone crack willow standing in the water of Roys Bay near Queenstown, follows a humble fence post on Wānaka Station and the question of who has profited from it since. It moves from a farm's thrifty chores in the nineteen thirties to a Christchurch photographer on a foggy winter morning in twenty fourteen. Best heard from the shore, looking straight out at the trunk.
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