Bay Harbour: December 02, 2020
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BAY HARBOUR<br />
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NATURAL CYCLE: Thousands of dead krill turned Southshore beach pink last week.<br />
PHOTO: MARGARET ELLINGFORD<br />
Cycleway growth<br />
CYCLISTS SAY the growing<br />
network of major cycle routes<br />
in the city is encouraging them<br />
to make more trips by bike, new<br />
survey findings show.<br />
Earlier this year the city<br />
council repeated the Cycle Users’<br />
Survey that first ran in 2018.<br />
This year 303 surveys were<br />
completed, which involves interviews<br />
with people found riding<br />
their bikes on the city’s major<br />
cycle routes.<br />
City council transport<br />
operations manager Steffan<br />
Thomas said 82 per cent of those<br />
who took part this year stated<br />
the new cycleways have<br />
encouraged them to use their<br />
bikes more.<br />
“It is clear from the responses<br />
to the survey that the growing<br />
network of major cycle routes in<br />
the city is making a difference<br />
to how people move around,” he<br />
said.<br />
“It was great to see people<br />
talking about how they are now<br />
happy for their kids to bike to<br />
school or how they now cycle<br />
into town if they are going to<br />
meet friends for dinner.<br />
Washed up krill<br />
turns beach pink<br />
SOUTHSHORE beach turned<br />
bright pink last week after the<br />
high tide left millions of whale<br />
krill washed up.<br />
Sea birds are feasting at the<br />
beach on the swimming crabs<br />
which form important food for<br />
whales and other sea life.<br />
Otago University’s Marine<br />
Science Professor Steve King said<br />
the summer stranding is nothing<br />
to be alarmed about.<br />
“It’s a natural cycle of the pelagic<br />
food where climate change<br />
is happening but it is mostly<br />
manifested in the warm water<br />
conditions we are seeing right<br />
now.<br />
“There’s a raft of red-pink<br />
animals on the wave wash on<br />
the beach, that’s a very typical<br />
thing to happen in the summer<br />
time in these sub-antarctic<br />
waters.”<br />
King said the red crabs have a<br />
pigment which reflects the pink<br />
colour.<br />
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