We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
The last hike started just a short drive up the airport road in Gillies Bay. We headed around the north end of the runway and down to the beach at Coxs Lagoon. The sea was calm and there were a few seabirds on the water, but for those of the hikers that had not seen them before the small groups of visiting Harbour Porpoise were much more interesting. The tide line was well down the beach as we walked south towards Sandbanks and we stopped for lunch on some logs not far from a crab-apple tree in full flower. After lunch we found some fine clumps of Coralroot Orchid with bare red stems and small pink flowers beside the forest trail as we climbed back up to the road at the south end of the runway.
JD.
The cream coloured and lightly scented flowers of our native crab-apple tree.
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