Western Springs Lakeside Park
A spring fed lake with a flat loop around it, longfin eels under the bridges and pūkeko running the place.

Look over the bridges and you'll see the eels. They start life as larvae drifting down from somewhere out near Tonga, spend decades growing in this lake, then head all the way back to breed. The loop is flat the whole way round. Don't feed anything: the council asks you not to and there's been botulism in the water. Fewer ducklings than there used to be, too, since the pūkeko got the numbers.
Photos
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Prosperosity · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons E James Bowman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons E James Bowman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Facilities checked 2026-08-13 againstaucklandcouncil.govt.nz, data-aucklandcouncil.opendata.arcgis.com
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