{"id":437,"date":"2024-06-15T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/?p=437"},"modified":"2024-07-07T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T22:51:10","slug":"waikerikeri-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Waikerikeri Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Saturday disregard your syllabus. Everyone to meet at <strong>1:00pm<\/strong> ,corner Walton &amp; Thompson streets , where we will car pool out to <strong>Como Villa<\/strong> in Earnscleugh, not Italy.  <strong>A-Ls duty pack<\/strong> this week and we will most likely head on down to the tailings and river track area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Saturday we met up at the usual place and time , thinking it was going to be a small turn out. But it turned out\u00a0 a\u00a0 big crowd had already gone direct to Waikerikeri , so we ended up with nearly 40 walkers there.  Plans\u00a0 had changed a bit as early morning rain ,made for damp slippery conditions underfoot. And heading on up the ridge into cloud on the track , would give people a chance to get lost. (Would that be such a bad thing ? )  The local weather god delivered once more , rain earlier in morning , cloudy for harrier time , then rain again in the evening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we went up the road a little further , before looping back down the valley besides the\u00a0 trees , the cows , and the swedes. Numbers in the packs varied a bit , as some front runners in the W2s decided they could stay with the W1s.  And a retired farmer in the W3s obviously felt years younger , back beside those cows and swedes and caught up with the W2s.  All groups went down the valley before looping back or dropping back down onto Waikerikeri road.\u00a0 I think the W2s may have\u00a0 gone furthest down the valley. And all were back for afternoon tea within about 5 minutes of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gannets were happy again as plenty of afternoon tea was available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Saturday 12 members will head away early in the morning with an overnight tramp to the Greenstone hut and returning Sunday.&nbsp; So an executive decision was made to swap the next 2 scheduled outings around , so we would not be paying for a half empty bus to Mitchells cottage. So we can enjoy a car trip out to Como Villa this Saturday and a bus ride &nbsp;Sheepshead to Fruitlands at the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Club dinner Senior Citizens rooms 13 July&nbsp; 6pm .Remember to pay $40 into club account &nbsp;031733 0004935 00 and remember to put your name and dinner down as reference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope to see you all at Como Villa. Some better weather has been booked in for those going to Greenstone hut &nbsp;and also those staying local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday disregard your syllabus. Everyone to meet at 1:00pm ,corner Walton &amp; Thompson streets , where we will car pool out to Como Villa in Earnscleugh, not Italy. A-Ls duty pack this week and we will most likely head on down to the tailings and river track area. Last Saturday we met up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-by-gary","tag-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}