Bay Harbour: November 28, 2024

<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />

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NEWS<br />

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Flippered friends know their place<br />

The penguins popped up<br />

at Naval Point last weekend<br />

– and they’re back this<br />

weekend. More than 100<br />

ceramic kororā (whiteflippered<br />

penguins) made<br />

by the community are on<br />

display as part of Know<br />

Your Place, a two-week<br />

synthesis of art and proenvironmental<br />

action.<br />

Ceramic artist Nikki<br />

Wallace-Bell collaborated<br />

with Ngāti Wheke<br />

kaumātua, the community,<br />

Lyttleton Primary School<br />

pupils, the Climate Change<br />

Campus and families from<br />

Naval Point Yacht Club<br />

to create the kororā. The<br />

white-flippered penguins<br />

are one of the world’s<br />

smallest – growing just over<br />

25cm tall and weighing<br />

1.5kg – but have been<br />

identified as an endemic<br />

species and a barometer<br />

for a healthy harbour by<br />

Whaka-Ora Health <strong>Harbour</strong>.<br />

The Penguin Peninsula<br />

exhibition is one part of<br />

a project led by Manaaki<br />

Whenua Landcare<br />

Research. Waddle on down<br />

from 10am-4pm Saturday<br />

and Sunday to see the<br />

display.<br />

PHOTOS: FACEBOOK<br />

ROOKERY: Proud<br />

makers joined<br />

the visitors at the<br />

Penguin Peninsula<br />

exhibition.<br />

Heathcote Expressway<br />

to remain open for now<br />

The closure of the Heathcote<br />

Expressway has been delayed.<br />

KiwiRail has agreed to the Council pausing the closure<br />

of the 1.5km section of the Puari ki Kahukura Heathcote<br />

Expressway between Vaila Place and Truscotts Road.<br />

How long the cycleway will remain open for is yet to<br />

be confirmed.<br />

Gates were due to be locked until significant upgrades<br />

are installed after KiwiRail told the Council the Scruttons<br />

Road rail crossing was unsafe for ongoing use.<br />

We’re working with KiwiRail on a future closure date,<br />

we’ll also keep working with them on design and<br />

confirmation of costs for the rail crossing upgrade.<br />

Ngā mihi nui, thanks for your patience.<br />

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