Above and below, this is Bullock Creek

Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs, in case you didn’t know, is teeming with life above and below ground. Tui, kahu, pīwakawaka, bees, blackbirds, worms, macroinvertebrates, fish, and mycelium all converge at the wetlands, not to mention the life force of the water itself. Wai is taonga in Te Ao Māori, evident in the life-giving sustenance it provides to the whenua and its plants and animals.

Bullock Creek springs seeping through the ground

Bullock Creek is the culmination of a journey, created by the Wānaka Basin-Cardrona gravel aquifer, located to the South-South West of Wānaka township, finally seeping directly from the ground throughout the Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs site. If you follow a map, you can imagine the journey the wai has taken to wend and weave its existence into the creek we know as Bullock Creek.

If you go down to the creek today, who will you meet? What will you find? Will you know where the water has come from?