Brights - Mataihuka QE Park Sunday 4 December

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 is 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 Ave 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)