Left cars at Paraparaumu Station. Walked up Nikau Reserve track, over Brights Farm track, Panorama Heights, Mataihuka Track, Emerald Glen Road, Queen Elizabeth Park Yankee Trail, Paekakariki, Finns Pub, train back to Paraparaumu.
Sunday, 04 December 2016
Nikau Reserve (across the main road from Lindale)
The top of the Nikau Reserve track
Brights Ridge Skyline Track
Brights farm - there is public access on the walkway
The next track (Mataihuka) is on the ridgeline in the distance
Mataihuka Track
A band of light rain coming up from the south over Paekakariki
The new walkway and cycle bridge over the expressway at Raumati South
Elisabeth geocaching. Raumati Road expressway overbridge, centre picture.
QE Park, Raumati South, and Poplar Ave
A long line of motorbikes passed below us on the old main road.
We had raincoats on for brief period - it was warm and muggy.
That geocache must be somewhere around here!
The Leinster Avenue area
Paekakariki top right
Canada Geese at the QE Park wetland (Yankee Trail)
Bird Hide, QE Park wetland
Macracarpa (?) trees in the QE Park Remnant Forest
QE Park Remnant Forest
Mt Wainui. Transmission Gulley works at bottom of picture.
Tilley Road, Paekakariki
Phonezee and Snoozie time while waiting for the train at Paekakariki (after a beer at Finns pub)