Looking at the entrance to the Hine Road car park and Hine Road Recreation Reserve. This is a great...
Month: December, 2023
Photo of The Garden of Remembrance in Wainuiomata taken in the year 2023. This cemetery site is located in...
Looking at Wainuiomata River from the Main Road Bridge with entrance and track to Pool Crescent Reserve just visible...
This short video shows birds flying under the Main Road Bridge that traverses the Wainuiomata River near Rotary Park.
Before the construction of the Main Road Bridge, there was a ford that allowed access across the Wainuiomata River....
This Methodist Church in Wainuiomata stands as a historical building, mirroring the design of numerous early colonial churches in...
Most people walking on the Whakanui Track will start at the top of Sunny Grove. But the track use...
Looking at both McDonalds and Woolworths at The Strand in Wainuiomata. Woolworths is the largest supermarket in the suburb.
View of the lower end of Queen Street in Wainuiomata. Queen Street is dissected by The Strand which can...
Two hidden tanks on the track to Crowther Trig. It is not currently known if these two tanks were...
The idea of a cable car spanning the Wainuiomata Hill has been floated as a bold solution to long-standing...
As a kid growing up in Sunny Grove in the 1960s and 70s, I often played in Sinclair Cemetery...
Wainuiomata's Queen Street serves as a primary hub for various shops and it houses the Community Centre and Public...
Read about my fourth bush bash adventure into the wilds of Wainuiomata near Sunny Grove. I discover remnants of...
A timeline taken from the same lookout near the car park at the top of the Wainuiomata Hill. Click...
There is no track here, but trekking up Skerretts Creek involves a lot of rock hopping. Eventually it opens...
Looking at a V12 Allison Motor from a Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk that crashed in the Wainuiomata hills in 1943.
During this impromptu adventure, I navigated along a river, leaping from one moss-covered rock to another, then finding a...
Skerretts Creek was the location for a water catchment in the 1950-60s. Water was piped out of the creek...
Looking at a sign on the Whakanui Track indicating the direction of the track as well as other tracks....
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