Walk 40, 20th Sept 2020
Dome Forest is one of my local walks and the hill is a landmark. You can either go to the viewing platform, which looks south over State Highway 1 and Warkworth, or you can take the longer walk to the Dome (336 metres.)
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Walk: Warkworth 35
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.
Walk: Warkworth 36
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Walk 37, Moirs Hill, 17th August 2020
The next few walks will be in the local area. I can’t go outside of the borders of Auckland because of another mandated lock down. These walks are my solace.
This walk is just south of Warkworth on SH1 near the Pohuehue viaduct. There’s a pretty waterfall that the Pohuehue Stream tumbles over.
At the waterfall there’s a plaque dedicated to Beverley Price, a local woman who originated the idea of this track. She died on the Air NZ flight that crashed into Mt Erebus in 1979.
Walk: Warkworth 37
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