Buildings & Cities Group
Our Buildings & Cities Group has this year become quite diverse in its range of topics chosen either from personal interests or experiences, and has proved united in enthusiasm to attend a guided tour of our Elms Mission House in Tauranga for our September Meet.
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Otawa Trig, Hikers 1
Otawa Trig. Doc writes :Enjoy a walk through attractive lowland forest dominated by tawa and rewarewa. Entering the forest, this track follows the gently undulating ridgeline to Otawa Trig."
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Hikers 1, Toi's Pa to Ohope
What a fantastic day for a hike. The sun shone brightly, there was hardly any wind and the views were of the million dollar variety.
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Mini-Hikers 1, Mount Maunganui

On a beautiful sunny winter’s day 7 members of the Mini-Hikers1 Group met on Marine Parade, Mount Maunganui.
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Cycle Group, The Lakes

U3A Tauranga cycle group enjoyed a spring ride around the Lakes suburb. The blossoms were coming out, the day was fine, and no significant wind made riding a pleasure.
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Cycle Group, Kulim Park

An enjoyable winter ride took this group from Kulim Park to Fergusson Park, then to the Tauranga Yacht Club.
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Papamoa with Hikers 1

Val and Betty shared their local area with us. Papamoa Plaza was the beginning of a figure of eight walk.
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Garden Ramblers 1 - July visit

Recently we visited a hydroponics lettuce farm near Katikati.
It is one of the largest operations of its type in NZ, tucked away down a side road and out of view. Another example of “you never know what is behind that hedge”.
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Hikers 1, Uretara Estuary

Hikers 1 enjoyed a short winters' walk from Henry Road, Katikati, where a new bridge gives access to the Haiku Walkway and on to the Uretara Estuary and Yoeman Walkway.
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Mini Hikers, Katikati
Ten members of mini hikers traveled to Katikati to walk the estuary on Wednesday. What a magnificent day weather wise it turned out to be.
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Weekend Walkers, Pyes Pa
On Saturday 10th June, 14 Weekend Walkers met at the Pyes Pa Road shopping Centre. We walked up the road into 12 Acre Wood to view Copper Crest Retirement Village from afar.
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Travel Group, 25th May 2017

The May meeting of the Travel Group learnt about Italy and gained some insight into tours available.
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