Sunday Walk 23 Nov 08 3.30pm

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This Sunday’s walk is a relatively gentle one. We are starting from the end of Donald Bruce Rd nearest the roundabout (beside the kindergarten: parking beside the high school playing fields), going down the bridle path and taking a look around the high school wetland. There has been substantial weed-removal and replanting there, with more to come. Tony King-Turner hopes to be with us and will tell us about what has been happening.

Thence to Hooks Lane and down to the beach for an amble and then back up to the high school fields and a walk along the cliff-tops through the primary school and back across to Donald Bruce Rd. We are then fortunate to be having a look around the Lush property, opposite the school, with a nice wee hill for looking out from, a small wetland and a beach down the bottom. The tide will be near full or we’d then walk to Shelley Beach but will have to return to our starting point along the road.

See you then.

3.30 start. Meet beside the kindergarten, Donald Bruce Rd. All welcome and not much in the way of hills.

Sunday Walk, 16 Nov 2008, 3.30pm

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The walk this week is a loop around the Matiatia–Owhanake area.

This is a similar walk to that which Gary Wilton organised for Labour weekend but if you missed that you might like to join us. We will pass through a variety of landscapes including regenerating coastal bush, northern bays and Matiatia wetland. The walk will take up to two hours and will include climbs from Oceanview Rd to Delamore, down the other side and back up again.

Meet at the Owhanake carpark (the unsealed one midway between Matiatia and Oneroa) at 3.30pm.
For more detail check out http://waihekegreenmap.blogspot.com or contact me on 372 2450.

Note that while every care is taken, these walks are at your own risk. All welcome.