Walkway Planting Day

21st August 2017: The Hawera Christian School students along with teachers and parents came to the Nowell’s Lakes Walkway today to plant out native plants that they had on-grown at their school.  The Normanby Lions Club guys had the areas ready for the planting and showed them what to do.  They even provided a sausage sizzle for everyone at lunch time.   

Habitat Heroes Deliver Plants

Jan and Doug provided the vehicles to transfer the first of the native plants on-gown in the Hawera Christian School shade house.  These were taken to the Nowell’s Lakes Walkway in preparation for the big planting day in a few weeks time.

Habitat Heroes Plant Hebes

The habitat Heroes of the Hawera Christian School are at it again.  This time planting out Hebe plants at the Nowell’s Lakes Walkway.  Over the last 12 months the Heroes have carefully nursed these plants in their shade house at the school to a size ready to be on-plated.   

Taranaki Kea Scouts Visit

The Taranaki Kea Scouts visit for a hike through the Walkway.    Comments were that the kids thoroughly enjoyed it and thought that it was a great place to walk around and see different plants 

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.