The Best View (Canterbury) Traditional Geocache
The Best View (Canterbury)
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One of the best views looking down Lyttelton Harbour and easy to get to from the road and just off the Creater Rim Walkway. You are looking for a 1 litre container with black camo. Stay a while and enjoy the view and over the road you can see Lake Ellesmere. BYOP.
The Crater Rim Looking along the top of the Port Hills as they curve around Lyttelton Harbour, it is not difficult to see the volcanic origin of the area. The summit of the hills is in fact the rim of the Lyttelton vlocano which was built up over a period of about two million years, activity starting aboout 12 million years ago. At its zenith the volcano reached about 1500 metres above sea level. Since then the volcano's large basin-shaped crater or caldera has been hollowed out by erosion. Sea levels rose in the 10,000 years since the last glaciation partly drowning the crater and forming Lyttelton Harbour (Whakaraupo). The volcanic rock of the hills contains many fascinating formations, including "dykes", ie ridges formed of molten rock which forced its way up through cracks in the volcano wall. Often their greater harness has meant that as surrounding rocks have eroded away over the years, the dykes are exposed as spectacular outcrops, such as Rapaki Rock, and Castle Rock. Generally the dykes radiate out from the volcanic centre which is near Quail Island (Otamahua) in the middle of the harbour. The island is a recreation reserve and can be seen clearly from the walkway as one looks towards the head of the harbour.
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