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A nice spot to sit and watch the St Albans creek (coming from the North) join the Dudley creek.
Dudley creek is home to Short- and Longfin eels, four species of Bully, and Inanga (Whitebait). The locals regularly feed the eels here, and pipes have been installed into the banks to provide 'Tuna Townhouses' - shade and shelter for the eels during the day.
The catchment area is an impressive 717 hectares, which turns this tiny creek into a torrent in heavy rain. There are two stormwater bypasses to help remove water and avoid the regular flooding that used to be a feature of St Albans - one taking water from upstream in Papanui to Horseshoe Lake, and another south of here at Petrie St, that can take eight cubic meters a second directly via a culvert to the Avon at Medway St. The intake to the bypass has been set high enough that periodic small flooding of the lower bank will occur - this is to replicate natural patterns as much as possible, since eels love flooded areas and come up to feast on all the new invertebrates suddenly accessible. Luckily for cachers there's no need to get your feet wet for this hunt!