Dec 14 1980
The heavy-duty seat at the look-out down the Jim Freeman’s track has been named the Douglas Seat (it was at a point where there were lots of Douglas first. – from the Friends of Ben Rudd’s Newsletter, No. 5 12/98/2000
Dec 14 1980
Point of access; Double Hill Road – 500m on right beyond gate below Forest HQ. 45 minutes return. Moderate. The Seacliff Mental Hospital was competed in 1884 and at the time was the largest public building in New Zealand. Water for the complex was originally supplied from a spring behind Warrington. However, as the hospital developed, […]
Dec 14 1980
Mapoutahi Pa occupies a small predipitous headland with a commanding view of the entraces to Blueskin Bay and Purakanui Inlet. Remains of the home terraces and defensive earthworks can still be seen. The date that the pa was built and the details of its earliest inhabitants have been lost from Maori myth. However its […]
Dec 14 1980
Sir Truby King, a man of many parts, was for some 31 years superintendent of amental hospital at the village of Seacliff. The setting was superb, but the enterprise got off to the worst possible start. A magnificent-looking series of stone buildings was designed by R A Lawson, whose commission was at the time the […]
Dec 13 1980
Some History. (Can’t recall where I got it from. Sorry.) Huriawa Peninsula. The peninsula was a superb natural pa site. Volcanic in origin, it rises sheer from the sea and had the twin blessings of a reliable spring and a small cove on its northern side where canoes could be safely beached. It was selected […]
Dec 12 1980
No. 31 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Pineapple Track – Swampy Summit. Year Round” The hills around Dunedin are superb viewpoints to see the city, coastline and ranges of inland Otago. Flagstaff is one such hill and like Mt Cargill to the north allows the walker to pass through several types of […]
Dec 11 1980
The first settlers drew their water from the creeks and springs in the area below the Town Belt, the principal sources being the Maclaggan Street, London Street and Regent Road creeks. In 1860 the Town Board tapped a spring in High Street and erected a public pump at the Manse Street corner.
Dec 11 1980
For many years the Silverpeaks has been a major recreation area for Dunedin people. Since the 1920s excursions have been regularly organised into the hills and some very old huts used by musterers and trampers of earlier days can still be visited. The walkway follows 15 km of one of the mot popular tramping routes […]
Dec 11 1980
Silver Peaks Forest lies in an area that has long been popular for family outings and tramping. It is less that 30 km north of Dunedin, on the foothills to the west of the Silver Peaks Mountains, and branch roads from State Highway 1 give easy access.
Dec 11 1980
This track serves as a link between the Flagstaff-Pineapple Walk and the Silverpeaks Route. It leads across the 739 m high Swampy Summit. From the top of the Pineapple-Flagstaff Walk the walkway runs north along a 4WD track. It is obvious, unless the fog (a common occurrence) rolls in. On the 4WD track a […]
Dec 09 1980
Planting commenced at Flagstaff Forest in 1906, with introduced trees of a wide variety and type. By 1914 22 different species had been tried, many of them deciduous trees from Britain. These species were unable to compete with weed growth and a switch to evergreen pines was undertaken. Planting from then on was concentrated on […]