To-Do & Explore

Fun to be Had

  • Lots of bush walks!
  • Rope swings
  • Swimming in the stream
  • Water sliding on our world famous water slide!
  • Bring some sacks or boxes to slide and roll down grassy hills.
  • Float down the stream on tubes which are at the swimming hole
  • Visiting the glo-worms at night below Puriri Hut (they don’t like being touched, also please turn torches off and keep voices down)
  • See if you can pat our little ponies, and find where on the farm the Highland cattle are
  • You can ride your own horse on the property and through to our neighbours, make sure you sign in and out at the boundary, and stick to marked trails.
  • Eeling (you can try shining a light into the creek at night, or tempting them with sausage on a stick)
  • Cooking on the campfire
  • Finding the hollow tree
  • Exploring in the creek from the end of the Ihenga’s Trail to the Redwood Hut pool – wearing shoes would be a help
  • Building huts
  • Reading books
  • Scavenger hunts
  • Treasure hunts
  • Gathering walnuts
  • Berry picking
  • Imagining
  • Riding bikes
  • Going on ‘expeditions’
  • Set up a burma trail
  • Walking to the pond to feed the ducks and chickens
  • Feeding pigs