Here's the details for Kapiti Island (6th June). I need to get final numbers next tuesday and payment so I can get the permits from DoC. So far I have booked 15 spots.
Cost is $11 for the permit and $55 for the boat ride, plus splitting petrol to get to paraparam.
Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand’s most valuable nature reserves, and it is the only large island sanctuary for birds between the Hauraki Gulf in the north and New Zealand’s southern outlying islands.
Nature reserves are areas set aside for the protection of native plants and animals, where human influence is kept to a minimum. Every effort is made to minimise the adverse effects of any introduced plants or animals that have managed to establish on the island. Most people never get an opportunity to visit nature reserves because access to them is so difficult.
Kapiti is one of a few relatively accessible island nature reserves. It provides an opportunity for people to observe birds that are either very rare or absent from the mainland, and to see the recovery of vegetation after intensive modification during last century.
Cheers,
I'll be at next weeks meeting with a sign up sheet.
Sarah