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Walking tracks

The tracks that already run through the project area.

Already here3.0 km

Part of the Cape as it is today.

A wooden post carrying a sign that reads: walking track, obstacles for dog exercise, not suitable for bikes, herbicide free area.
One of the signs already on the Cape, and a reminder of who else uses this ground.Ma Kōtukutuku – Ancient Cape Wanbrow Trust · From our June 2025 community briefing.

Where we are now

In place and walked daily — by walkers, by dog walkers, and by everyone whose route to the lookout runs through the ground being planted. One existing sign reads "WALKING TRACK — obstacles for dog exercise — not suitable for bikes — herbicide free area".

What it becomes

The same walks, through cover instead of grass, with the planting close enough to the track to be watched changing.

Why this matters

The track is how most people will ever meet this plan. What grows either side of it is what the project looks like to the public — which is exactly why the zigzag was planted first.

“The heartening thing about our last planting was the feeling of fellowship and community buy-in from everyone who attended; and also from every person and their dog who walked past.”

— Trish Shirley, Makotukutuku, June 2026

What needs to happen

1 of 3
  • Tracks in place
  • Lengths confirmed on the ground
  • Flood damage repaired and the Cape track reopened
The head of a walking track leaving a grassy reserve, with a signpost, the pine block below and the sea beyond.
“The beginning of the walking track from Lookout Point down through the reserve to the carpark at the bottom.”Ma Kōtukutuku – Ancient Cape Wanbrow Trust · A small copy, 640 × 480 — the only version of this photograph we still have.

Connected to

Surveyed boundary

The shape on the map is the Trust’s own: planting blocks surveyed by Survey Waitaki in August 2025 and mapped in ArcGIS, or a layer exported from that map. The area and length quoted here are measured from it, and the block areas agree with the Trust’s own chart to better than 0.15%.

Not settled yet

Lengths are measured from the Trust’s mapping rather than surveyed on the ground, so treat them as accurate to about ±10%.

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