Free Fun Family Picnic Place

The Walkway is about 3km South of Hawera starting at the end of Rifle Range Road. If you travel down the Whareroa Road, the Rifle Range Road is the first road to the right past the Dairy Factory.

Schools

The St Joseph's School from Room 1 came to the Walkway for their volunteer project day to help plant trees and check out their schools previous work.  They then went onto the Lakes picnic to enjoy their well-earned lunch.  Good one St Joseph’s.























The Hawera Christian School came in force to help get 700 native trees into the ground in our upstream development area.  The had supplied 60 flax plants that they had on grown in the shade house at the school.  Their hard work was rewarded with a sausage or two from the after work BBQ



































Doug was very impressed with the Hawera Intermediate School group on the volunteer day to help at the Walkway, in their work effort and their organizational skills.  Well done!  














































































































































The Habitat Heroes are at it again, delivering Flax Pants from their shade house




















































The Habitat Heroes of the Hawera Christian School planted out 60 Hebe plants that they had on-grown in their shade house at the school.






















































































The Hawera Christian School biodiversity study of wetlands












































The Hawera Intermediate School planting Swan Plants






















































































Mokoia School planting the first of this years swan Plants






















































































Hawera Intermediate School Field Study Tour March 2012






























Hawera Intermediate School harvesting their Wild Flowers




































































The St Joseph’s School children built this fantastic "Bug Wall".   It is built central to the Walkway and on the flight path of moths, butterflies and beetles.  The children filled the wall with river stones, broken concrete, old railway sleepers and drainage pipes to give bugs a habitat of their own to live.  The wall is designed for visitors to check out the bugs and the children found plenty of bugs, including frogs, to place in their “new home”    


















































































The Moturoa School grew and supplied 150 rare plants for the Walkway.   The plant is Pimelea Prostrata that is the habitat of the native Taranaki Moth, which is the only plant the moth caterpillars feed on. Believe it or not, this moth has wing colours of amber and black, the same as  Taranaki Rugby.  Taranaki Notoreas moth makes an appearance in November.  The day flying moth emerges just twice a year. 




























26th of Nov 2010. The enviro-team from the Hawera Intermediate School along with their teachers and headmaster visit the Walkway.



















































































A very proud group from the Hawera Intermediate School Enviro Team delivering Swan Plants that they had grown for the Nowell's Lakes Walkway 
project 5th Nov. 2010.




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