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Walk 39, 29th Aug 2020

This is a local walk through a patch of bush next to the Warkworth Museum. Parry Kauri Park has two mature Kauri trees next to the museum car park. The two large kauri trees are named in honour of the former landowners, Harry Parry and Tudor Collins. They were local identities who were largely responsible along with the Kauri Bushmen’s Association for raising the money to purchase the land.

It’s a great place for learning how to identify trees and you might get to see native birds at the bird feeder.

We haven’t seen birds tuck into the fruit on previous visits, but today we saw a pair of Silver-eyes enjoying the apples.

A pair of Silver-eyes at Parry Kauri park, Warkworth

Walk: Warkworth 36

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Silvereye or wax-eye/tauhou

Warkworth Museum

Walk 23, Kauaeranga Model Dam / Kahikatea Walk,
27 Dec 2019

The Kauaeranga valley is near Thames. It’s a pretty valley but stripped of its original Kauri forests. A century ago the trees were chopped down and the timber was used for things like ship’s masts, furniture, houses and the rebuilding of San Francisco.

The logs were floated down the valley using Kauri dams.

The walk to the model dam begins at the DOC Visitor Centre car park. The dam is a working small scale model, a third of the size of the original Tarawaere Kauri dam further up the valley.

On the way to the model dam, there’s a treasure hunt with a conservation theme. It’s really for kids but we did it and presented the results to the DOC staff for our sticker!