Note 2nd Saturday of June to coincide with low tide. We will botanise the lower slopes of the Whitireia coastal escarpment where it is accessible and the rocky platform at Rocky Bay. You will see Asplenium obtusatum, Leptinella nana, Veronica elliptica, Euphorbia glauca, Sonchus kirkii and Melicytus obovatus and other coastal taonga. This trip will be challenging as we will […]

We will climb the Puriri Track through kānuka and hard beech to the Main Ridge Track.  We’ll then head south as far as the junction with Rata Ridge Track, passing black beech, kamahi, and pockets of scrub, before returning the same way (c. 2 hours return if not botanising).  The forest is reasonably diverse for […]