A club work party digging ditches on Mana Island for a new water line installation. The group were also able to walk the 2 to 3 hour circuit on the island on the Sunday.
Mana Island Volunteering 7-8 September
Cook Strait Giant weta
Ditch digging under the watchful eye of DOC's archaeologist
Peter about to rupture the Island's existing water pipe (just kidding Peter)!!
The new water pipe will go inside the big white one underground.
Of course it's a straight line - with crooked bits you have a longer ditch and more work!!!
With a ruptured waterline you get murky water - note the glass samples
Gecko
Takahe - there are about 8 pairs on the island
The hole in the rock
Looking south
Cook Strait Giant Weta
There are lots of geckos on the island
There's a little blue penguin chick in there - this is in the island boat shed.
I'm just drying my wing feathers!
Spotted shags
Gannets
Titahi Bay in the distance
Looking across to Titahi Bay
The "gannet" colony
Everyone got to walk around the island on the Sunday
Kapiti Island in the distance
Yellow crowned Kakariki
Approaching the south end of the island
Cave weta?
Rest time for James
Kowhai flowers
Neville heading back to the Lodge
Beach cleanup Sunday afternoon
The remains of an old fridge!
Oyster Catchers
