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Waitaki District Council
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We're the 11th biggest District in Aotearoa New Zealand. We've got mountains, braided rivers, coastline and are home to the country's only UNESCO Global Geopark. We've also got blue penguins, the best cheese in the country and are the home of the Old Golds
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Beautiful day down at the Ōamaru Public Gardens, one of Aotearoa’s five star rated public gardens.
A beautiful green and lush lawn, edged by yellow flowers with a Victorian fountain with multiple tiers happily bubbling away. The sky is a brilliant summer blue.
December 1, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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So last week we welcomed Mr Rob Douglas of the Ōamaru Beautification Society. They’re sponsoring our native plants for the new Water Play Area. Mr Douglas’ grandfather also led the Society, and is responsible for Waitaki’s famous memorial oaks commemorating locals killed in WW1.
Mr Douglas is a man in his eighties stood next to a beautiful array of native plants with an under construction water play area behind him. He is smiling and holding a red and white umbrella over his head because of course it is raining!
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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Deal! The korora, or little blue penguin, lives along our coastline and we have a colony of them by the breakwater of our harbour. There’s a livestream too and if you catch it at sundown NZ time, you can watch them come up the rocks to their nests! m.youtube.com/watch?v=bl0z...
A gaggle of little blue penguin or korora coming up the beach to their nests.
November 18, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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Ok, so when we say we live in Waitaki we mean we live here.
The Moeraki Boulders. The story is these are gourds thrown overboard from the sinking Āraiteuru, and they live on the beach between Kurinui and Moeraki. Ancient, beautiful spherical boulders little the sandy shore with the Moeraki peninsula behind it. Harbour Street. The best preserved Victorian architecture and streetscape in the country. Narrow streets, high buildings of local whitestone, bunting strung across. The bakery on the corner is an absolute banger. The clay cliffs by the Ahuriri river. An ancient wonder of erosion, five or six stories high. You can walk amongst them into the rivulets, showing millions of years of clay and sand. The mighty Waitaki river, the tears of Aoraki. A braided river stretching from Lake Pukaki down the hydro dams that power the country to the vast Pacific ocean. An absolute stunner.
November 15, 2024 at 3:21 AM