We recently made a walk to the pine plantations of Nga Taki and had one of our wettest walks ever. It was fun though. There’s a reason to visit this area aside from the subconscious desire to get soaked to the skin. There are familites of wild horses in the area. The photo above was taken on a visit by Tom and Chris to the same place on a fine day recently.
It is actually amazing to contemplate the efforts that have in the course of something like fifty years transformed the extensive runaway sand dunes of the Aupouri Peninsula into the productive farms, avocado orchards and rotational pine forests we see today.
Men and women plant marram grass at Te Kao on the Aupōuri Peninsula in 1973. This was an early stage in stabilising these active dunes, which were later planted in radiata pine.
King Avocado orchards on the Aupouri Peninsula
The photos coming first below show a visit to the Nga Taki area on a sunny day earlier this year.
It may have been sunny for this autumn walk but we did have to wade through a little water as you’ll see in the next photo. Also a lot of fun!
And now for the rainy day photos in October:
Lucia and John. Can you recognize us?
Where Chris and Tom saw the horse.
Smiling before the rain.
Lunch under a pohutukawa. This is when the rain really began.
Lucia. Soaking wet.
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