A bunch of D of E students from Takapuna Grammar School after they did their first 20km tramp in the Cascades part of the Waitakere Regional Park. My daughter, Emily, is in the picture, but I won't say where. She'd be appalled...
It was remarkably wet. Mud everywhere. A test of character. Especially when it was raining as well.
I went along willingly as a parent help. Was assigned to "the rowers". Bunch of boys with varying levels of tramping experience. Was great fun.
And we shared the place with these wonderful Kauri trees. Found out later that the reason the kauri are still standing in the upper and lower kauri glens, is actually because the cutting rights for those small sections of the Waitakeres were never granted. They are even more precious now we know about the dreaded phytophthera. These threaten our Kauri trees. Apparently these creatures are slowly moving through the forests. We are not sure if they are carried on the boots of trampers. Or whether mud helps or hinders... disinfectant for boots is now routine. I hope this disease goes like the one we had a few years ago for Cabbage Trees and Puriri....
A bunch of D of E students from Takapuna Grammar School after they did their first 20km tramp in the Cascades part of the Waitakere Regional Park. My daughter, Emily, is in the picture, but I won't say where. She'd be appalled...
It was remarkably wet. Mud everywhere. A test of character. Especially when it was raining as well.
I went along willingly as a parent help. Was assigned to "the rowers". Bunch of boys with varying levels of tramping experience. Was great fun.
And we shared the place with these wonderful Kauri trees. Found out later that the reason the kauri are still standing in the upper and lower kauri glens, is actually because the cutting rights for those small sections of the Waitakeres were never granted. They are even more precious now we know about the dreaded phytophthera. These threaten our Kauri trees. Apparently these creatures are slowly moving through the forests. We are not sure if they are carried on the boots of trampers. Or whether mud helps or hinders... disinfectant for boots is now routine. I hope this disease goes like the one we had a few years ago for Cabbage Trees and Puriri....
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