Record numbers for summer fun
Kev the Wandering Kiwi
On one of the best days in January, a record-breaking 390 people turned up to meet Kev the Wandering Kiwi at Lion Foundation Buggy Walk in Tunnel Gully, Upper Hutt.
There have been many successes at this year's Regional Outdoors Programme. "The third Anything Vintage Festival at Queen Elizabeth Park drew 9,000 people and looks like becoming an end-of-year feature for the Kapiti Coast. And the great weather brought consistently high numbers to all the Kev walks, with theTunnel Gully walk beating last year's record by more than 100," says Greater Wellington's Amanda Cox.
"I'm especially pleased with the popularity of the Rongoa Maori Medicine Walk at Kaitoke Regional Park - the interest was so high that we could easily have booked out two more of these walks."
Though autumn is approaching, there are still some great events to check out before the programme finishes in April (see the calendar of events on the back page) and many more opportunities for fun in Greater Wellington's parks and forests throughout the year.
Greater Wellington is also encouraging more clubs, schools and community organisations to use the region's parks and forests by waiving concessions fees for most non-commercial groups with under 150 participants.