Boundary Stream, Mainland Island Reserve, Saturday April 6 2013
The scheduled trip to walk the Maungaharuru Ranges changed due to the clagged-in tops and forecast steady rain, with hail predicted by weather forecasters for the afternoon.
So a quick decision was made to go to Boundary Stream, and make it a short day walk. Arriving at the car park, we also decided to walk the one-hour loop track. This was indeed going to be a very short day.
The native bush reserve is a good showcase of the range of trees and plants in New Zealand. However, Boundary Stream has range of mature native podocarp trees. You pass a huge matai tree, said to be more than 800 years old.
We arrived back at the educational shelter, where there is also an aviary for the native birds that DoC is fledging in the reserve. The kokako is surviving well in the mainlaind island reserve.
Trampers: Dorothy Sole, Alison Greer, John Marshall, Sue Marshall, Denise Payne, Sue Titter, Geoff Donkin, Rochelle Elgie, Jude Paton and Julia Mackie
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