Northern Walkway, Wellington
Sunday 21 February 2021
Leader: Susan Robertson
Who knew that the back streets of Johnsonville led up to a network of trails and reserves with spectacular views of the city, harbour, ocean and mountain ranges?
Leader: Susan Robertson
Who knew that the back streets of Johnsonville led up to a network of trails and reserves with spectacular views of the city, harbour, ocean and mountain ranges?
Leader: Dave Cox
A hot day saw 11 of us leave from the Titahi Bay carpark and head south. A highlight was a feeding show from a seal who was trying to kill and then eat a large fish just off-shore.
Leader: Dave Cox
Thirteen keen trampers and one dog headed up from Kaitoke in hot weather. We had morning tea (and some nibbles into lunch bags) at the old Dobson Hut site, with reminiscing from a few of us of Friday nights there.
Leader: Yingjun Shelton (aka June)
15 of us did the loop anticlockwise and ascended some of the steepest parts of the track. It took us 7 hours. It was a fine day with not much wind. We had fantastic views on top looking over the Southern Crossing of the Tararua Range.
Leader: Dave Cox
A lovely day, with a tail northerly wind. Some of us gathered at Pukerua Bay railway station and walked down the Goat Track to meet Tony and the others.
Leader: Owen Cox
The idea was to have a bit of time to enjoy the upper Otaki Valley in summer conditions. We were lucky with the weather window for this trip as while the weather either side was damp we had fine weather pretty much right through.
Leader: Elisabeth Hynes
On Saturday 19 December eight grown-up trampers and two kid trampers (that’s us) spent one night at Totara Flat campsite. On the way to Totara Flats we stopped off at Everest Café in Featherston (delicious food).
Leader: Peter Davis
Nine keen trampers departed Paraparaumu Airport with Sounds Air and flew directly to Blenheim, where a shuttle bus was waiting. A quick visit to Bunnings to buy gas bottles, then we were taken to Lake Rotoroa where we boarded the water taxi for a quick trip down the lake to the pier in front of Sabine Hut.