Date/Time
Date(s) - Sat 13 June
9:30 - 15:30
Location
Whitireia Park, concrete pads/ parking area on Whitireia Rd, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Wellington
Note: this field trip is on the 2nd rather than 1st Saturday of June to coincide with low tide.
You will botanise the lower slopes of the Whitireia coastal escarpment where it is accessible and the rocky platform at Rocky Bay. You will see Asplenium obtusatum, Leptinella nana, Veronica elliptica, Euphorbia glauca, Sonchus kirkii and Melicytus obovatus and other coastal taonga. This trip will be challenging as you will be climbing over boulders and the tracks up and down the escarpment are very steep. You may get wet feet, however the tide will be ebbing until 1.40pm. Organisers suggest you wear good boots and consider bringing a walking pole or two and binoculars. Check with Robyn if you are uncertain about the terrain.
If the weather is too extreme to be on the escarpment, you will botanise Gillies Reserve in Ranui Porirua off Gillies Place.
Meet: 9.30am at the concrete pads on Whitireia Road, off Thornley Street, Titahi Bay
Public Transport: 8.14am train on the Kapiti line to Porirua. Bus 220 at 8.41am at Porirua Station, get off at Thornley Street. Walk up the road to the concrete pads.
Co-leaders: Robyn Smith 027 437 2497 and Andrew Jinks (Porirua City Council Nursery)