Free Fun Family Picnic Day 2017

Trust Chairperson, Jan Dunlop with husband Ross are delighted with the turnout and  action for this year’s Nowell’s Lakes Free Fun Family Picnic Day.   Over 700 people turned up and Jan says the events just gets bigger and bigger and more fun each year.  The event is always held at the end of the school holidays and the children are like wild horses let loose and do not know what to run to first.

 

The monster water slide or the canoeing and kayaking or the drone races or the archery or the free sausage sizzle or back to family for the picnic and what about the trailer chariot ride to see through the established area of the walkway.  The littlies do not miss out with all their fun games and neat prizes donated by Fonterra. 

The Nowell's Lakes Walkway Trust in partnership with the Taranaki Zone Scouts and the Normanby and Districts Lions Club organises these events each year with the aim of creating public awareness and to show what the Nowell's Lakes Walkway has to offer.    To see the action go to the “Fun Day 2017” page above.

HCS Nature Study Day

This day the children of the Hawera Christian School visited the Nowell's Lakes to complete their biodiversity study of wetlands.  They were very excited to find an explosion of wildlife living in and about the lakes at this time of the year

New Signs Show The Way

The Walkway has been accepted as a “Place of Interest” in this year’s Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival and new roadway signs have been installed in readiness for that. 

Free Fun Family Picnic Day 2016

31st January 2016:  Over 400 people turned up to enjoy our free family fun picnic day.  There were long queues at the water slide, keen eyes watching the drone displays,  scores of kids wanting to kayak and hungry and happy children at the barbecue.  The Walkway Trust in partnership with the Normanby Lions Club and the South Taranaki Scout Group organised this event that turned out to very successful in achieving the objective of creating more public awareness of what the Nowell's Lakes had to offer

Wildflower Planting Time

The annual boost of wildflowers seeds have been sown along the Walkway this week.  Apart from the bright display these wildflowers bring they are mainly there for the purpose of keeping the Monarch Butterfly’s in the Walkway as they feed off the nectar of the flowers.  Hebe's are also planted along the Walkway for this purpose but they flower later in the season.  

Fonterra Chief Visits

Fonterra Board of Directors Chairman John Wilson made a supprise visit to the Walkway last week when he was in Taranaki to talk to the Shareholders.  Pictured below are Jan Dunlop, Michelle Dwyer, John Wilson and Doug Hutchinson.

HIM School Visit January 2014

Big Brothers Big Sisters

Mokoia School Visit

Thank you Bunnings of Hawera