Annie the Canadian Te Araroa walker rang us on Thursday night from Orewa, so we arranged to meet up somewhere on the Okura walkway the next day.
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Month: January 2014
Wilson Road private block
I spent today exploring the sand-hills on the western side of the Kaipara Harbour, almost out at South Head. My son James has a friend living on a 200 acre deer farm, and it looked like a good place to ride a mountain-bike.
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Hoteo River
At 10.45AM this morning we launched our kayaks into the Hoteo River, at the boat ramp beside the State Highway 16 bridge.
Pollen Island
One of Felicity’s university colleagues has recently got keen on kayaking, so we arranged to meet this afternoon for an exploration of the inner Waitemata Harbour.
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Omahuta Puketi Forest Track
A friend who is walking the Te Araroa Trail told us that the track through to Puketi is one of the most beautiful areas of kauri forest he has ever been in, and we would now have to agree. Our friend Mike hasn’t done much tramping in NZ so we invited him to tag along, expecting he would be impressed too.