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Delta Park

n of Johannesburg’s largest next to dams and under shady trees. through glass panels as you go up
parks (over 100 hectares), Dogs of course love this park – they and down a spiral staircase.
ODelta is situated in the grounds can run, swim and meet other four-
of what was one of the city’s early leggeds. The logo for this centre is a helmeted
sewage works. At the time it was on guinea fowl, peering at the ground,
a wide slope of grasslands, allowing There is another element often pecking for food and insects. These
for gravity to help with the refinement overlooked – the actual 1035 Art are curious birds, and live in large
processes. Today it is full of trees, Deco building which was central groups. This was thought to be
dams, and fields. The Council leaves to the sewage works, is now an appropriate for the centre, which aims
one area of the grasslands uncut so Environmental Centre, specifically at teaching curious groups of children,
the cosmos can flower every year. aimed at educating children. This as well as adults.
This is spectacular, and hikers, houses offices and very good exhibits
visitors, and dog walkers all come and of animals, birds and plants, an The centre has resident Cape Eagle
enjoy the annual autumn spectacle of auditorium, and in one of the original Owls, who have lived and bred there
these gorgeous white, pink and red circular treatment areas, a diorama for decades. They are relatively tame,
flowers blooming at over a metre high. with birds sounds through the day. so the public can see them perched
You can watch the sun appearing in nearby trees, watching over and
Cyclists have set paths, and cafés and hear the dawn chorus, then the feeding their growing chicks. There is
at different points serve these users midday sounds, ending with the an owl box on the back of the building,
as well as more casual customers. evening and night bird calls. One of and the same female has come back
Colourful church services take the other circular areas has a large there to breed and hatch her young
place over weekends, and there are tree in it, with glass walls showing for seventeen years. dw
regular Park Runs at the beginning of the leaves and activity there, the
each month, attracting hundreds of trunk, then the roots and underground
participants. Picnics are also popular, animals and insects. All this viewed Gill Butler

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