- 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 usually available 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 find the highland cows, peking or paradise ducks
- You can ride your own horse on the property and through to our neighbours (when open), make sure you sign in and out at the boundary, and stick to marked trails
- Spotting Native birds, Tui, North island robin, Wood pigeon, bellbird, fantail, Kaka, grey heron, wax eye, grey warbler, king fisher, shining cuckoo, long tailed cuckoo, hawks, paradise ducks, moreporks and others.
- Spotting Tuna (eels) and Koura (freshwater crayfish). 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 above the Redwood Hut pool to the Puriri hut bush swing– wearing shoes is helpful
- 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
- Climbing to the top of a hill
