The Kāhu Hapori went to totara park and botanic gardens on 6th August and 30th July. We went to see what they looked like as we will need this for our new semester topic, Kaitiakitanga or you can call it, The Guardians Of The GalaxSEA. There were a lot of similarities and differences. I’ll go through the main ones. One difference is that totara park is more of like a grassy area whereas the botanic gardens has its own footpath. Botanic gardens also have many more varieties of plants whereas totara park just has New Zealand varieties of plants. There were a lot of unique plants in botanic gardens. We had a ton of learning opportunities on the trip. There’s also a cool cafe and there is also a food truck in the area. Botanic gardens also don’t have cows as totara park has cows. I am really excited to get into our semester topic. I’m looking forward to this because in totara park there were cool things and cool plants there. We were split into groups and we had a scavenger hunt and a storm water walk. My personal favourite was the storm water walk. I really enjoyed walking around with my friends talking about the stormwater system. The fountain outside the visitors area is also really cool. This Guardians Of the GalaxSEA topic is going to be super cool and I am really looking forward to it.
