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Geopark - Sasha M dossier 2019

Real Radio: Time to talk Geopark,joined as usual by Geoeducator Sasha Morriss. Now, Sasha, you've got a dossier in front of you. Does it make for interesting reading?

Geoeducator: It does.  Look the dossier is now available in several places around the district, which I'll go through soon. And it's not a not a massive document, but it is jam packed with information. It's really readable all about the geology of our area. Interesting sites to see, the history of our area. And I just encourage people to have a look at it. They can access it through our website. They can read it online, obviously, or print it out. And it's also available in the Oamaru Library that's available now or by the end of the week we hope to have it in several other locations. And I'll just read out the list, that we've got. So it's going to be available in Palmerston, in Hampden, in Kurow (at the i-site and at the library), in Otematata and Omarama. So plenty of places for you to access it and have a read through it. I just encourage people to. It clarifies a lot of exactly what is a Geopark. What have we been doing and where are we heading.  It's a really interesting read.

Real Radio: So for anybody who's not entirely sure what the whole process is about and and has some questions, they can find most of the answers in there.

Geoeducator: Yeah, look, this is a really good start and it'll probably answer a lot of people's initial questions. And then there are also lists out all of the geosites that we've got there - we've got 42 geosites with a brief description of each one and a little picture. So look, it's just a great document. Good lot of information coming up to the holidays as well. Might give people a few ideas of places they could go for day trips and just about the actual structure that we've got in place for the actual Geopark project itself.

Real Radio: Good stuff. And of course, the app is also available online isn't it. How do people go about getting hold of the app?

Geoeducator: That's right. So it's available from our website. That's whitestonegeopark.nz.  And you go on there and you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and there it has the app. You can put that on your phone or your device. And there's a few different field trips on there. One is a a walking tour of the Victorian part of Oamaru. And then there's an inland driving tour and there's also a coastal tour as well. Really interesting to have a good look through, lots of information and just another great resource for people to use over the summer.

Real Radio: That's cool. Thanks very much, Sasha. We'll catch up with you again shortly.

Geoeducator: I look forward to.

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