Mana Island Volunteering 29-30 June

Scrub cutting and rubbish collection on Mana Island. Overnight stay. Walking track circuit on the Sunday. Lucky enough to see the Rowi Kiwi using red lights on the Saturday night.

Saturday, 29 June 2019

Arriving after 20 minute (slightly bouncy) ride from Mana Marina

Our Lockwood Lodge accommodation on the island

Solly about to attack!

David hard at work clearing scrub at the generator building

David was not going to be told that the flax was too difficult to clear!

Many hands make light work!

We also cleared some of the tracks.

Cutting out vines is the hardest job.

But you get there in the end!

Young Korimako (Bellbird)

Young Korimako (Bellbird)

Brown Teal - nice shot Solly!

Makara Wind Farm

DW in "The Hole in the Rock"

DW looking back from "The Hole in the Rock"

Pied Shag

Two Pied Shags

Our lodge in the trees

Gannet Colony

Takahe

Lunch in the sunshine on the Lockwood deck

The windswept top of the island

Gannets?

Kapiti Island in the distance

At the former lighthouse sight

The western cliffs

Yellow-crowned Kakariki

At the top of the island on the walking circuit

Titahi Bay top right

Plant nursery, Lockwood, and toolsheds

Boatshed

The crew

About to return to the mainland