Out & about.
Where to go and how to get there: parks, tracks, beaches, waterways, marae, worship, and the buses that join them. The green and blue parts of the record.
The places, from the air
Twelve ways in
- The Botanic Gardens: the garden inside Hagley’s bend, growing since 1863
- Hagley Park: the green the city wraps itself around
- Riccarton Bush: the last of the kahikatea forest, behind the predator fence
- Taylors Mistake: the surf beach with the holiday baches clinging on
- Corsair Bay: the harbour side’s sheltered swim
- Te Heru o Kahukura / Sugarloaf: the Port Hills’ mast-top summit
- Halswell Quarry: the city quarry turned park, stone church included
- Lyttelton town walk: the port town the tunnel made a suburb of
- Victoria Lake: Hagley’s lake, the ducks and the model yachts
- Ngā Hau e Whā: the national urban marae, on Pages Road
- Bottle Lake Forest: the pine plantation the bikes and walkers share
- The pedal network: the lanes and paths that join the whole thing up
Every layer
- Parks: every park in the layer
- Tracks: the tracks through
- Heritage walks: a heritage walk
- Beaches: the beaches
- The coast
- Every waterway: the waterways
- Lakes & wetlands: the still water
- Summits: the high places
- The buses: one bus route, counted
- Tennis: every court the register maps, by suburb and surface
- The pedal network
- Marae: the marae of Christchurch
- Places of worship: the places of worship
The rest of it
- Piers & wharves: the waterfront
- Waterfalls: the falls
- Rocks & quarries: the rocks
- Old sites: the old sites
- Monuments & memorials: the monuments
- Cemeteries: the cemeteries
- The canopy
- The remembered names: in The record
- Raw milk: the farms still pouring at the gate
Buying local too: the listed farm gate, the fruit & veg sellers, the markets and the raw-milk farms are in the business record.