Today we pretended to travel to Tonga with Mrs Elmore! We saw eels in our gully stream and we tracked the path that the eels from our stream take to have their babies.
We located the point where our stream meets the Orakei Basin, and we checked out where the Orakei Basin meets the sea. We know that from there the eels move from fresh water to salt water and continue to make their long journey. They travel way past Rangitoto and Great Barrier Islands, and swim all the way to a deep trench near Tonga. It is there that they have their babies. The parents then send their babies off without them, to make the long journey back to New Zealand.
We will post more later, but for now you can watch these clips to find out more about the NZ long fin eel....
Feeding the eels
Pukaha Mount Bruce
You can find out even more about the longfin eel by clicking here!
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