Flora and Fauna

Flora and Fauna Trip

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Date: Sat Sun 28 – 29 November .
Trip type: E-M Tramp.
Location: Roaring Stag Hut.
Author: Rachel.
Trampers: Andrei, Caryl, Claire, David, Erika, Kerry, Rachel, Illona (leader) .

Have you ever been tramping with a leader who carries a textbook and binoculars in their pack? Illona Keenan is one such leader. She led Andrei, Caryl, Claire, David, Erika, Kerry, Mark and Rachel up the Mangatainoka River and over a ridge into the Ruamahanga on an overnight fauna and flora extravaganza to Roaring Stag … Read more

Roaring Stag Flora and Fauna

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Date: 27 - 29 June 2014.
Trip type: Easy Medium Tramp.
Location: Tararuas.
Author: Margaret Craigie.
Trampers: Illona Keenan (leader), Margaret Craigie, Sarah, Gareth Gretton, Beccy Day, Barbara Keenan, Aimie, Pierre, Meena Kadri, Ray Walker, Erik, Jane.

Photos from Tony Gazley Sadly, for a NZer, I’m reasonably well informed given that I can name around 20 plant species, and identify quite a few of them. However, I wanted to be able to tell the difference between a couple of species by bark, given that these trees grow very tall, and leaves are … Read more

Trip to Roaring Stag

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Date: 9-10 February 2013.
Trip type: Easy medium tramp, Flora / fauna appreciation,.
Location: Tararuas.
Author: Rachel Boschen.
Trampers: Illona Keenan (leader), Marie Smith, Marie Henderson, Rachel Boschen, Barbara Keenan, Richard Salisbury, David Barker and Emily Shrosbree..

After a slightly bleary-eyed 7.30am meet on the Saturday morning, a club minibus jam-packed with sleepy trampers left for the Tararuas in hot pursuit after Illona’s car. As a tramping-virgin, I had been warned about the mysteriously misty, murky and muddy Tararuas and had sat through various club presentations picturing drizzly-looking forest and decidedly damp-looking … Read more