Churton Park Community Walkers

Newsletter 11th February 2024

Last week’s walks.

We had an excellent turn-out of walkers for the Wednesday walks around Khandallah with 63 members participating!   On Thursday 6 walkers (plus Red) completed their walk around Churton Park with some drizzle occuring on their journey. The Friday group, numbering 18, went up to Kaitoke for their walk around Kaitoke and Pakuratahi Forest.

A reminder about last week’s notice for the Wednesday walkers.

As a trial, over the next two months we propose nominating the start time for each walk from the walk's starting point. This will factor in the estimated travel time for those who need to arrange transport from Churton Park at 9am. Consequently those requiring lifts and those offering lifts should either continue to meet amongst themselves at 9am or make arrangements in advance by swapping telephone numbers. To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to make any arrangements it is proposed that we commence advising the start time for each walk from 21 February.  We would be pleased to receive any comments on this approach.

Brian Vincent.
Convenor.

Reminder

Please ensure that you inform your group’s leader if you leave a walk partway through.

This Week's Walks (Wednesday 14 February)

The walks are all in the Mana/Paremata area so there should not be any traffic problems.

PP’s:  A 3.00km loop that is dead flat.  It takes in a bit of coast, a bit of park and a bit of street.  You can see the walk here.

SS’s:  A 5.86km Paremata loop which does includes a couple of hills with the rest fairly flat.  All on footpaths and tracks.  You can see the walk here.

FF’s: A 6.54km loop walk on tracks and footpaths. Includes hills.  You can see the walk in NZMapometer here and on PlotaRoute here.

Parking: Parking for all three groups is in the Ngati Toa Domain using the parking area accessed from Pascoe Avenue.  (Turn left into Pascoe Avenue from Mana Esplanade. The parking is on the right about 100m ahead once you are over the railway line.)

Coffee: Picnic!  Picnic!  It is planned to have a picnic under the trees that surround the carpark.  Bring a chair or rug and thermos etc.  If the weather is unsuitable then there are cafés on the way home.

Enjoy your walk.
Russell Paterson

When you open the website to view your walk have a quick look at the “Home Page”.  This usually has a new picture each week generally showing a view from one of our walks.

Cancellation

If the walks are cancelled an email will be sent out as early as possible, but definitely before 8:00am.

Walk Schedules

You can look at the walk schedule for February 2024 here. 

Photos

Walkers please try and take a photo of each group on walking days and email them to this link.

Preferably small size (around 450kb).

CPCW Photos
A group of 32 Steady Steppers out and about in Khandallah. (Thanks Paul A)
Keen Thursday walkers at the top of the Erlestoke/Chippenham loop in Churton Park. (Thanks Hue)
Friday walkers headed out to Kaitoke on a walk that took in parts of the Pakuratahi Forest and Remutaka Incline. (Thanks to Clint, David & Bill)

Just for Fun

Thanks to those who responded to Ed's desperate plea for captions for the photo below.  The quality was so good that all responses are published and judged equal among firsts!  Well done to you all for exercising your grey matter as well as your muscles during the week.  

John H:      "Bugger!  Can't find it!  That's right - I had a sex change."
                   "Just checking ... I have been losing a few on the golf course!"

Gay:           "Phew!  It's still there!"
                   "Another CP Dropbox nailed!"
                   "Now where did Wendy put that licorice allsort?"

John V:       "Best P I have had this side of the Black Stump!"

David P:     "Bugger this cold weather - I can't find a thing!"
                    "Should have gone to Spec Savers!"

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