A walk through nature

This weekend we have my sister staying, she has come up for a visit so yesterday I showed her one of our nature walks we have here. There are about 9 waterfalls around Kerikeri in total so we thought we would see the river waterfall.

 

The walk in total is about 20 mins along an easy track with Kawakawa trees just about everywhere and the leaves can be used in a healing balm.

 

Some nice fungi I found on one of the old logs and because there are Kauri in the forest, near the entrance is a cleaning station where you have to scrub your shoes and spray a disinfectant on them. This is to prevent Kauri dieback disease which has affected many trees in NZ.

This is the waterfall once we got to it, we couldn't walk down to the edge as it was too slippery.

This is us both, we don't really look alike. I take after my dad, she takes after mum. Anyway we are due to spend the rest of the weekend and most of next week with heavy rain.

Stay safe. Kia kaha

Kerikeri River Falls

Another local waterfall (I think there are 8 in total) we've discovered on our treks around this area is this one - the Kerikeri River Falls Track.  This one is near the Stone Store and took us about 20 minutes in total to walk there, very pretty and quiet considering it's so close to town.

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Summer is coming!

Near there Kerikeri River Track we recently found this park with trees dotted here and there, some deciduous and some evergreen but all of them showing off some lovely green leaves at the moment. Such warm Spring days for us with a nice breeze in the air.

This area is just around the corner from the Stone Store and the Kemp mission house so not far to walk. It may be only October but it's already getting quite hot so Summer won't be far off - thankfully we have air conditioning pumps in 3 areas of our house so no doubt they will be getting used on occasion.

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