Pauatahanui (royal forest & bird group)

Finally in New Zealand, after a very good flight and all. Today, Monday 15 was the first working day. Yesterday I had time to recover from the flight. With a group of the guys I went into Wellington city by bus. The house that we stay in is on top of the hill in Lower Hutt, which is about a half hour outside of Wellington over looking the bay.
Today we help out at the Pauatahanui wetlands area which is mainly run by volunateers, but all people from the area that have retired. They are busy replanting all the indigenous plants in the wetland area to recover from old farmlands. I helped with potting of smaller plants into bigger containers, and also helped plant some reed in the river edges.

Its peaceful in the house now, as the rest of the gang, 7 guys all between the ages of 18 and 20 and one girl, 20 have left to go go-carting. this gives me some time to load up some pictures of today.


the potting area with the older retired people. Some have been working over 15 years here already.



me potting plants



the lady in the front,Wanda, runs the show here and tells us how to pot and what to do.



The wetlands area discription



the word in mari shell of water.



The scenery of the wetlands



Planting grass along the river banks to prevent soil erosion



More scenery of the area of the 20 hectare wetlands