Tramps & Activities Calendar

Grade: Easy

Time: 3-4 hours

Meet at Glen Eden or at 9.45am at corner Puriri Road and Hawke Crescent, Beachlands.

The island is accessible at low tide via a sandbar three hours either side of low tide.  On 19 July it is at 11.50am. The island can be walked around and climbed up onto. There is a shipwreck, a shag colony and sandstone cliffs.

New Zealand Herald:

“The island glitters less than 500m away, but a sense of magic belies its proximity. We feel thrust into the turquoise water of the gulf, adrift on a giant raft.”

Then we will go to the nearby Omana Regional park.

Non members must contact the Leader before trips to ensure suitability.

Over the years Christine has tramped (and paddled) all of the Great Walks on DOC’s list plus walked many other tracks equally beautiful and with as high a standard of track and accommodation as the official Great Walks. So enjoy seeing tramping from Te Urewera to Rakiura/Stewart Island and you may be tempted to book your next tramping holiday. Many familiar faces feature in the slides. The pic is of the Queen Charlotte Walkway.

Please come along & support your fellow trampers, mix & mingle & have a cuppa.

For today’s walk, we will meet at the NEW LYNN BUS STATION STOP 5914 where we will catch the number 18 bus into the city (may even be a double decker) We will then walk down to Britomart, and board the 9.46AM train to Panmure  The journey to Panmure is 15mins, so our walk will commence around 10am

On arrival at Panmure, we will walk down Lagoon drive and take a left turn, and follow the walkway through to Pt England, on through Churchhill  and Glover parks. Finishing at St Helliers, where we will bus back to Britomart.

The walk will be approx. 3hrs excluding breaks. Of course anyone wishing to extend the walk can walk to Britomart approx. 2 hrs, instead of the bus option.

Originally the trip into town was going to be by train, but because of the closure of Mt Eden station, the train only goes as far as Kingsland, and would have involved a rail bus to Newmarket, and then back on the train to Britomart, so the best option is the number 18 bus from New Lynn direct into town. The number 18 bus leaves every 12 minutes and follows Great North rd through Avondale, Pt Chev, and Grey Lynn.

Please advise leader if you wish to meet at Britomart or Panmure.

Non members must contact the Leader before trips to ensure suitability.

Grade: Mostly flat with some short, steep portions

Time: 3-4 hours

Meet: Glen Eden at 8.30 or Somerville Road (off Whitford, off Chapel Road) at the White Barn opposite 309 Somerville Road at 9.30.

Within the reserve we follow well-formed and maintained gravel paths. The path follows the Mangemangeroa Creek to Shelly Park Boat Club. At low tide we walk along the foreshore to Cockle Bay. Join the cockle gatherers (hence the name of the bay). We can either retrace our steps or come back on quiet residential streets. The reserve passes through a diverse landscape of farmland (minus the animals), native forest, unique estuary and salt marsh habitats. When we are almost back at the barn we have the option of extending the walk.

Non members must contact the Leader before trips to ensure suitability.

Time: 5 hrs approx.

Grade: Moderate

After visiting the 3 volcanoes in Devonport we will follow the coastline to Lake Pupuke fossil forest. Here we turn inland to visit the lake and the final 2 volcanoes of Tuff Crater and Onepoto. Fingers crossed for much better weather than we had last time!

Please contact the leader if you wish to meet on the North Shore.

Non members must contact the leader before trips to ensure suitability.

Time: 4-5 hrs approx. 16 km

Grade: Moderate

Meet at Glen Eden Railway Station before 8.30 to catch the 8.34 train to Britomart

or if you want to meet at Britomart be there by 9.20am for the start of the walk.

Begin  in the city centre on the shores of the Waitemata Harbour, before crossing bustling downtown and turning inland to Albert Park and the university.

From here, head to the 200-acre Auckland Domain and then onto the summit of Maungawhau (Mount Eden), where you’ll enjoy views into the crater and out across the city, harbour and Hauraki Gulf.

Then it’s on through historic suburbs to the volcanic cone of Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill) before following ancient lava flows through the Onehunga suburb, finishing at Manukau Harbour.

Grade: Moderate

Time: 3-4 hours

Meet at Glen Eden at 8.30am  or North Piha carpark at 9.15 am. Please advise leader if meeting at North Piha.

We will walk up to Te Waha Point and then down to Whites Beach and Fishermans Rock. Up to Anawhata Road and back down to Piha.

Then a short drive to another carpark and a 10 metre walk into the Piha Café.

There will be a few steep bits. Non members please contact the leader first.