Can you swim in Lake Pupuke?
Can you swim in Lake Pupuke?
Lake Pupuke is a large, deep volcanically formed lake that is surrounded by urban areas. It is commonly used for a wide array of water sports including swimming, diving, boating and fishing. This lake often plays host to large volumes of people engaging in a variety of recreational activities.
How did Lake Pupuke fill with water?
The lake is a volcano, about 150,000 years old. It is an explosion crater and so forms a basin rather than a hill or mountain. When volcanic activity ceased, the crater filled with fresh water, forming a 107-hectare lake.
How long is Lake Pupuke?
4.5 kilometres
Contact Lake Pupuke Lake Pupuke is freshwater lake and a popular spot for rowers and sailing enthusiasts in Takapuna. The heart shaped lake is a result of two volcanic craters linking together. The circumference of the lake is 4.5 kilometres with a depth of 57 metrres.
Where is pupuke?
Lake Pupuke is a heart-shaped freshwater lake occupying a volcanic crater (or maar) between the suburbs of Takapuna and Milford on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand.
When did Lake Pupuke erupt?
around 140,000 years ago
It is the crater of a scoria cone volcano that last erupted around 140,000 years ago. The lava from explosions at Lake Pupuke trapped many trees, which have become fossilised.
Is Lake Pupuke manmade?
Lake Pupuke remains a lake because, unlike the other vents, its eruptions produced substantial lava flows; water can thus escape through cracks in the lava reaching under the crater wall, creating a series of freshwater springs along the beaches between Takapuna and Milford.
Can you fish in Lake Pupuke?
Lake Pupuke provides good fishing for a reasonable population of stocked trout in a lake within Auckland city. Lake Pupuke is regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout as well as holding a reasonable population of perch, tench, rudd, catfish and gold fish. Trout average around 1 kg.
Are there turtles in Lake Pupuke?
There are several invasive fish species, and invasive red eared slider turtles, in the lake. We have sighted several perch, tench, koi carp, trout and mosquito fish during our monitoring dives.
Can you walk around Lake Pupuke?
Lake Pupuke/Killarney and Sylvan Parks You can walk the approximately 6km circumference (though not all on the lakeside), in around 90 minutes, enjoying the bird life, or watching kayakers, paddle boarders and windsurfers on the lake.