Spent the day on Motuihe Island, an uninhabited island in the Hauraki Gulf. 80-odd people from IBM were on the ferry with us, planting trees for the Motuihe Trust.
Lovely, peaceful island. We walked along the ridge to Bald Knob (hur hur) at the southern tip of the island, then discovered we could get all the rest of the way round without leaving the beach. Probably a 2-3 hour walk in all, at a leisurely amble.
Saw lots of pairs of birds which were either fighting or flirting, had a beach picnic, and admired lots of weird rock formations, we think caused by erosion of conglomerate or layered rocks at different speeds. Some really good pohutukawas too, clinging to the cliff where no tree that big had a right to be.
The planted trees look really impressive. The ones from 2004 are already shoulder high and give a feel for how the island will be in a few years when it's all returned to forest. We may well come back some time and do some tree-planting ourselves.
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