Sasha Says - Geopark and Geosites

<h1>Sasha Says - Geopark and Geosites</h1> <p>21 April 2020</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>Time to talk Geopark. Joined on the line as usual from home by Sasha our geoeducator. How are you doing today Sasha?</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>Very well, thank you Dan. How you?</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>Yeah, awesome, awesome. Surviving in the bubble. But really keen to explore more of the district, particularly from a Geopark perspective when we get out of lockdown. What have you got to help with that?</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>Oh look, we've been working really hard just to put a lot of new information on our website. So that's www.whitestonegeopark.nz. Now, I know there still seems to be a bit of confusion over the geosites and what a Geopark is. So just to briefly explain the Geopark. If you think of it like I guess an open air living museum and the geosites within it are exhibits within that museum -individual exhibits. So of course, it's not a museum in the fact that things are we're preserving them and we're not touching them - you know, it's, we're interacting with our environment as we as we go around - once we're out of lockdown. But the geosites, of course, geo meaning earth. So, the geosites are all related to either a geological or a geomorphological (which means rivers and earth processes) a site. So it's sites relating to the earth that have been identified as being either of scientific interest or some of them of cultural interest, such as the Maori rock art sites that we've got. And some of them are of social interest. An example of that we've got the Golden Point battery down in East Otago. So we've got a number of different sites and what we're doing is we're trying to set up a separate page on our website dedicated to each geosite. So if you click through onto our website, go to 'explore' and then you'll see 'geosites'. Now, this is being updated really frequently at the moment as I'm writing more and more text to go on this. So just this last week, we've u