STRATEGIC PLAN January 2020 OUR VISION

Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust 2020–2030

Striding Forward | Hikoi Whakamua

Developing environmental guardians of the future through improved public walking and biking access, enhancing biodiversity, promoting knowledge and working in partnership with others who share our commitment to Banks Peninsula.

Ko te whakawhanake kaitiaki taiao nā te whakahōu ara hīkoi, ara paihikara, te whakaniko rerenga rauropi, te whakamana mātauranga me te mahi tahi ki ngā tāngata e kaingākau kaha ana ki Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū hoki.

2 Success Story 3 Reasons for our Success Christchurch City Council founded Rod Donald Banks Independence and We are highly cost The Trust has OUR VISION Peninsula Trust in 2010, as a our capital base are effective. maximised the charitable entity to support our core strengths Council investment. sustainable management, 1 enabling us to: 2 3 conservation and recreation on the peninsula. Capital from the sale of farms endowed • Attract highly skilled • Projects to date have • We estimate a five to earlier peninsula councils voluntary Trustees used only 35% of the fold gain on initial was transferred to the Trust to • Seize opportunities as original capital investment through facilitate this. they present • Staff work on partnerships The first step taken by the Trust was a • Form project projects, not funding • Our projects mean stocktake of other agencies and groups with partnerships applications the Council’s Public overlapping mandates working on Banks • Contractor based Open Space Strategy Peninsula. The objective was to identify gaps model keeps overheads is on track despite the in the work in progress and how, as a new low earthquakes entity, the Trust could best add value. From this, the Trust identified it would achieve maximum value and an enduring legacy through expending the capital on projects holistically achieving four key pillars: Access, Biodiversity, Knowledge and Partnership. Our strategic plan “Striding Forward” leadership partnership summarises our outstanding record of for improved with others achievement to date, our goals for the four ACCESS pillars going forward and how they assist public support for to achieve Christchurch City Council to meets its own walking and enhancing promotion of common objectives. biking access biodiversity knowledge goals Simon Mortlock, KNOWLEDGE PARTNERSHIP Founding Trustee and Outgoing Chair BIODIVERSITY Maureen McCloy, Incoming Chair WĀHI URU RERENGA RAUROPI MĀTAURANGA MAHI TAHI OUR FOUR PILLARS 3 OUR ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR …

Access | Wāhi uru See map for location Christchurch City

Sumner

1 Te Ara Pátaka track network links Lyttelton Taylor’s Mistake and Akaroa craters on a stunning 3 day tramp Godley Head with multiple options Halswell Akaroa Lyttelton Harbour 75km Rod Donald Hut is hugely popular with Ferry 2 families introducing children to tramping 7

Port Levy Funding grant to Orton Bradley Park enabling 6 3 Pigeon Bay it to further develop as a family friendly 8 3 Little Akaloa recreational gateway to Te Ara Pátaka Tai Tapu

Monument Rock 4 Walking link from Akaroa to Hinewai reserve Okains Bay secured Packhorse Hut 9 Mt Herbert/ Te Ahu Patiki Hay 11 1 Reserve 5 Public access secured on Woodills South Port Levy Saddle 2 Museum track – Akaroa’s most popular day walk 15 Rod Donald Hut 10 DOC Nursery 75 Le Bons Bay Motukarara Montgomery Panama Rock 6 Walking linkage for Head to Head walkway Kaituna Reserve Hilltop Reserve 75 4WD only Duvauchelle - negotiated to connect Allandale to Teddington Otepa-totu 12 Barrys Reserve Bay Little River Robinsons Bay Ótamahua Hut enables families to stay on Okuti 7 French Onawe Reserve Farm Kaituna Hickory Bay Lake Ellesmere / Quail Island Quarry Ellangowan Waihora 5 Reserve Saddle Hill 4 Lake Forsyth / Wairewa 13 14 Bossu Road Wainui

Birdlings Flat Paua Bay Hinewai Onuku Tutakakahikura

Long Bay / Otanerito State Highway 75 Stony Bay Akaroa Harbour Te Oka Bay Nikau Palm Sealed roads Gully

Unsealed roads Flea Bay (unsuitable for campervans) Peraki Bay

Akaroa Head Rod Donald Hut

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Hinewai reserve on other side. other on reserve Hinewai

circular route returning via Takamatua and quiet back roads. roads. back quiet and Takamatua via returning route circular

– register intentions with a trusted contact. trusted a with intentions register – Before departing Before

to ridgeline trail heads for shorter routes and access to lower lower to access and routes shorter for heads trail ridgeline to

return tramp to the Rhino on the ridge, or extend to a 3 hour hour 3 a to extend or ridge, the on Rhino the to tramp return from Woodills North or by car from Long Bay Road. Bay Long from car by or North Woodills from

process. process. – absolutely no fires to be lit anywhere. lit be to fires no absolutely –

High fire danger fire High

road. Other options include extension along Misty Peaks, driving driving Peaks, Misty along extension include options Other road. 8

permitted

An easy 1 hour hour 1 easy An

Children’s Bay Farm Walkway Farm Bay Children’s

commemorative tree plantings with great views. Access on foot foot on Access views. great with plantings tree commemorative

Cliffs and other hazards other and Cliffs accessible via the Skyline Circuit track, is a leader in this this in leader a is track, Circuit Skyline the via accessible – keep children under supervision. under children keep –

Mountains bikes not not bikes Mountains

800 m to Stony Bay Peak with ridge walk and descent on quiet quiet on descent and walk ridge with Peak Bay Stony to m 800

Dogs prohibited Dogs 3

Easy walk and scenic picnic spot in in spot picnic scenic and walk Easy

Heritage Park Park Heritage

No food or water available on tracks on available water or food No

– take these on the longer tracks. longer the on these take – 5

and encourage native regeneration. Hinewai reserve, reserve, Hinewai regeneration. native encourage and

Spectacular full day tramp climbing climbing tramp day full Spectacular beauty spot. beauty Skyline Circuit Circuit Skyline

Tracks slippery after rain after slippery Tracks – sturdy footwear and walking sticks recommended. sticks walking and footwear sturdy –

are working hard to protect the original forest remnants remnants forest original the protect to hard working are

Gentle walk to a traditional Akaroa Akaroa traditional a to walk Gentle

Newtons Falls Newtons Best combined with Woodills North. Woodills with combined Best

medium grade medium

lower reserve. lower

– choose a lower level walk. level lower a choose –

When cloud covers hilltops covers cloud When

to the hills. Today the local community and landowners landowners and community local the Today hills. the to 2 historic streets and a country track. track. country a and streets historic 2 Woodills South Woodills

Mountain bikes permitted, permitted, bikes Mountain

Dogs on leads only leads on Dogs

drivers. Avoid in low cloud. low in Avoid drivers.

For a shorter walk drive to Heritage Park and loop around the the around loop and Park Heritage to drive walk shorter a For

Hills are colder than Akaroa than colder are Hills – always take layered and waterproof clothing. waterproof and layered take always –

regeneration have restored a patchwork of vegetation vegetation of patchwork a restored have regeneration

Trail heads at both ends of ridge track give easier options for for options easier give track ridge of ends both at heads Trail

Curry Reserve. In good weather add a climb up Stony Bay Peak. Peak. Bay Stony up climb a add weather good In Reserve. Curry maybe muddy maybe

Weather can change quickly quickly change can Weather Park and the lower part of Purple Peak Curry Reserve. Curry Peak Purple of part lower the and Park – check the forecast before departure. before forecast the check –

Since then a mix of exotic tree planting and native bush bush native and planting tree exotic of mix a then Since

Trampers combine with Skyline circuit to add extra ridge walking. walking. ridge extra add to circuit Skyline with combine Trampers

circuit around Purple Peak visiting Heritage Park and Purple Peak Peak Purple and Park Heritage visiting Peak Purple around circuit

some up and down hill, hill, down and up some

effective control effective

Best combined with Woodills South, or add in a visit to Heritage Heritage to visit a in add or South, Woodills with combined Best

Plan, prepare and equip yourself well. well. yourself equip and prepare Plan,

were shorn bare, with less than 1% of the forest left. left. forest the of 1% than less with bare, shorn were

Mountain bikers ride from the village. village. the from ride bikers Mountain Misty Peaks Peaks Misty

4 Walking on formed track, track, formed on Walking Dogs permitted under under permitted Dogs

Full day day Full

Round the Mountain via Curry Track Curry via Mountain the Round

Excellent 2 hour easy tramp. Lovely views. views. Lovely tramp. easy hour 2 Excellent

Woodills North Woodills

Safety is your responsibility responsibility your is Safety use of fire to create open pastureland. By 1900 the hills hills the 1900 By pastureland. open create to fire of use

and downhill and

began logging on a commercial scale, making extensive extensive making scale, commercial a on logging began

track with prolonged up up prolonged with track formed track formed

N European settlers arrived in the mid 19th century and soon soon and century 19th mid the in arrived settlers European Tramping on unformed unformed on Tramping Main Wharf Main Easy tramping on well well on tramping Easy

the southern end of the crater rim above Wainui. above rim crater the of end southern the Akaroa Lighthouse Akaroa Childrens Bay Childrens

hills, creating the rocky peak (Mt. Bossu) that dominates dominates that Bossu) (Mt. peak rocky the creating hills, weather conditions on the day and prepare well. prepare and day the on conditions weather

Dalys Wharf Dalys Recreation Ground Car Park Car Ground Recreation

stick, Tuhiraki. When finished, he buried Tuhiraki in these these in Tuhiraki buried he finished, When Tuhiraki. stick, Finally, choose a route that is appropriate for your ability and and ability your for appropriate is that route a choose Finally,

carved out the South Island’s lakes with his giant digging digging giant his with lakes Island’s South the out carved Main Beach Main

conservation operations. operations. conservation

kaihautu

ancestor. Stories tell of how the ancestor Ra ancestor the how of tell Stories ancestor.

- -

SH75

Rue Lavaud Rue

Beach Road Beach

Rue Jolie Rue return expect walkers to respect their property and farm or or farm and property their respect to walkers expect return

– the food storehouse of their great great their of storehouse food the –

kaihautu

taka o Ra o taka Pa - Rue Grehan Rue - -

8 available due to the generosity of our landowners, who in in who landowners, our of generosity the to due available Rue Balguerie Rue so lush with food resources that they named the place Te Te place the named they that resources food with lush so

5 approximately 800 years ago. The forest and sea were were sea and forest The ago. years 800 approximately etiquette notes on the back of the brochure. These walks are are walks These brochure. the of back the on notes etiquette Woodills Road Woodills Old Coach Road Coach Old &

7 The Waitaha people were the first humans to arrive arrive to humans first the were people Waitaha The Please read the safety notes below the main map and the the and map main the below notes safety the read Please

Humans in the crater the in Humans

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& you and follow the detailed directions and map for your walk. walk. your for map and directions detailed the follow and you 6

on the fertile volcanic and loess soil. loess and volcanic fertile the on have selected your route using this map, take the brochure with with brochure the take map, this using route your selected have Purple Peak Road Peak Purple

Biodiversity | Rerenga Rauropi thrived which forest Knowledge dense in cloaked once were hills The | Mātauranga Partnership | Mahi Tahi

Signposting is patchy in places, and varied in style. Once you you Once style. in varied and places, in patchy is Signposting

2,4

& Farm

can be very slippery to walk on after rain. rain. after on walk to slippery very be can

Tree Crop Tree

tracks except where indicated where except tracks

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pale clay – called loess soil – over the volcanic rock. This This rock. volcanic the over – soil loess called – clay pale

Mountain bikes are not permitted on off-road off-road on permitted not are bikes Mountain as they approach. approach. they as

and blew it over the peninsula, where it formed a layer of of layer a formed it where peninsula, the over it blew and

with low traffic levels, but listen for vehicles and get off the road road the off get and vehicles for listen but levels, traffic low with

Waterfall

(No vehicles past this point) this past vehicles (No

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into riverbeds on the plain. Strong winds picked this up up this picked winds Strong plain. the on riverbeds into

Grehan Valley Road Valley Grehan

Where walks are routed on roads, these are generally very quiet quiet very generally are these roads, on routed are walks Where

During the last ice age, alpine glaciers deposited fine dust dust fine deposited glaciers alpine age, ice last the During

Lighthouse Road Road Lighthouse

Black lines show sealed roads and brown lines gravel roads. roads. gravel lines brown and roads sealed show lines Black

reached it and turned the island into a peninsula. peninsula. a into island the turned and it reached

5 4 4 Stony Bay Road Bay Stony

& 3 access from SH75 from access

climbing, rougher surfaces and require a greater level of fitness. fitness. of level greater a require and surfaces rougher climbing,

as debris washed down from the Southern Alps - finally finally - Alps Southern the from down washed debris as

Long Bay Road Bay Long

Dashed lines indicate the more challenging tramps, which involve involve which tramps, challenging more the indicate lines Dashed

Junction

ago. Then the Canterbury Plain - continually extending extending continually - Plain Canterbury the Then ago. 6

site

Hoheria OUR PARTNERS INCLUDE

Worsley House Worsley much climbing is involved. Solid red lines show the gentle walks. walks. gentle the show lines red Solid involved. is climbing much

extinct volcano stood as an island until about 20,000 years years 20,000 about until island an as stood volcano extinct

See map for location Reserve Curry

Enjoy the Beaches

enabling you to see how they are accessed from Akaroa and how how and Akaroa from accessed are they how see to you enabling (Reserve car parking here) here) parking car (Reserve Purple Peak Purple

point in the crater rim to create Akaroa harbour. The The harbour. Akaroa create to rim crater the in point

Park Heritage

Magazine Bay, Cass Bay and Corsair Bay have sandy beaches, safe swimming

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The adjacent map shows all the routes from a harbour viewpoint, viewpoint, harbour a from routes the all shows map adjacent The and bays. Eventually the sea broke through the weakest weakest the through broke sea the Eventually bays. and &

and picnic tables. Cass and Corsair also offer road access with parking, toilets and shortcut Paripai

height as streams carved out the radial pattern of valleys valleys of pattern Theradial the out carved streams as height Trust has mapped and promoted all the walks

playgrounds. Great for family adventures. routes. the of parts do and heads trail the dominated The hills were whittled to half their original original their half to whittled were hills The dominated

with less climbing, you can drive up the hills on the back roads to to roads back the on hills the up drive can you climbing, less with

Once volcanic activity ceased, the processes of erosion erosion of processes the ceased, activity volcanic Once

100 Make a loop on the bus Reserve Peaks Misty together by quiet back roads. If you want a shorter experience experience shorter a want you If roads. back quiet by together

Cabstand corner Cabstand

5 good views of these features on most of the walks. the of most on features these of views good

trail head head trail

tracks, private farmland and private and public reserves, linked linked reserves, public and private and farmland private tracks,

Cabstand

Access from from Access Saddle Te Piki o Te Ake Te o Piki Te

oozed up through cracks in the existing cone. There are are There cone. existing the in cracks through up oozed

Stony Bay Bay Stony

(parking behind ridge) behind (parking

your own steam. The routes traverse a mix of stock droving droving stock of mix a traverse routes The steam. own your

behind ridge. ridge. behind

Purple Peak Purple

village was a late formation created when trachyte lava lava trachyte when created formation late a was village 100 Hut fees per night

1 head trail Bay Flea

car behind and enjoy the challenge of climbing the hills under under hills the climbing of challenge the enjoy and behind car trail head parking parking head trail

toki toki O Berard/ Mt. harbour. The dome of Stony Bay Peak above Akaroa Akaroa above Peak Bay Stony of dome The harbour.

Oteauheke 13kms of tracks on other side other on tracks of 13kms

COASTAL WALK TO PONY POINT RESERVE Lookout Beech Skyline Flag Peak Flag Brocheries Road Road Brocheries

depart from and return to Akaroa village, so you can leave your your leave can you so village, Akaroa to return and from depart

distinctive landform bisecting the upper reaches of the the of reaches upper the bisecting landform distinctive

Brasenose/

includes Stony Bay Peak and and Peak Bay Stony includes

(behind ridge) (behind

The eight main routes described in this brochure are designed to to designed are brochure this in described routes main eight The

nawe peninsula, the the peninsula, nawe 97 The main magma vent was under O under was vent magma main The

Saddle

Hinewai Reserve Hinewai

- 5 A coastal meander withRoad viewsBay overFlea

ago and activity continued sporadically for 3 million years. years. million 3 for sporadically continued activity and ago

Enjoy the Beaches ONWARD TO ORTON BRADLEY Browntop

on BanksLyttlelton Port visiting historic sites, Peninsula bush. native and scenery Adult pastoral views, superb with rewarded

The Akaroa volcano commenced about 9 million years years million 9 about commenced volcano Akaroa The 806m

Magazine Bay, Cass Bay and Corsair Bay have sandy beaches, safe swimming and picnic tables. 97 be will Akaroa (18+surrounding years)hills the of exploration your ride, bike

Exploring the volcano the Exploring sandy swimming beaches and ending Sign of the

/ Taraterehu, CharterisTaraterehu, / Bay to Orton Bradley Park k

Info Centre – Pony Point Continue from Charteris Bay Yacht Pea Bay Stony Youth

at an elevated scenic reserve. Ideal for Cass and Corsair also offer road access with parking, toilets and playgrounds. Great for family Major Hornbrook Packhorsemountain- Hutor hike tramp, easy walk, short a choose you Whether

Supporting ecological restoration at Living Walk Country Akaroa Your Choose Track

2 hours one way (4.4km) Club to lovely Orton Bradley Park to Christchurch Gondola (11–17 families and part of the Head to Head adventures. Rue Grehan V country hill Akaroa Discover ➞ Stunning views of Lyttelton 100 Child/infant $15.00 $7.50 Naval Point – Pony Point Camping at Sign years) No Dogs enjoy the historic buildings and the Harbour Basin back Lyttelton and Coastal Walk to PonyGetting Point to Diamond Harbour Public transport

walkway. & Christchurch City Make a loop on the bus 2km 3/4 hours. (0–10 years)

1½ hours one way. H of the Packhorse café before exploring walks in the S

A O M 1 Catch public bus #28 from central Christchurch to Lyttelton, W Find us on on us Find Christchurch City Festival Walking Peninsula Banks E U S The #28 bus runs between Lyttelton and Rapaki on weekdays at peak times only. R P K Hut Park. E D CHRISTCHURCH RR H

Directions from Information Centre: H TE A Please help us look after Lyttelton and its Total walking time from C S CE 76 S 100

A O A $5.00 U R and then the ferry to Diamond Harbour. Bus and ferry Good walking shoes R M

Check www.metroinfo.co.nz for the timetable and bus stop locations. R R E

T S T

8 Orton D 76 74

C 76 Free Head down Oxford Street and cross T S A beautiful environment BANKS PENINSULA Diamond Harbour Wharf Diamond Harbour Facilities S (basic hut

www.bpwalks.co.nz to see the full festival programme on-line programme festival full the see to Visit front timetables are available on www.metroinfo.co.nz.

needed. E O Directions: R Rod Donald Hut $15.00 $7.50 $7.50 O

Stan Helms Track Bradley R R sumner

D Follow walk 4 from the Bridle Path Walkway L To Summit Rd Carpark (1 hour) 40 mins to Summit Rd Colombo St $2.50 L

Norwich Quay using the pedestrian 101 8 is about 3 hours. Toilets: ticket) A

Some hill walking. Childrens Bay Farm Walkway Diamond Harbour Wharf to Charteris Park Most routes do not Diamond Harbour Village Centre has two cafes: “Preserved” S Akaroa Shuttle and Akaroa French Connection provide W Takamatua EL ETIQUETTE ON75 THE AKAROA COUNTRY W N Y Make sure you display proof of your booking(basic next hut to your crossing. Watch for trucks. Turn right N R D have toilets. Public toilets next to S PD D A Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre, in Albion Square, Corsair Children’s Bay Farm Walkway Whose land am I on? O Y and “Dark Star”. The only shop is “On the Spot” located Suitable for rugged E E S Bay Yacht club, and onto the main R R services between Christchurch and Akaroa, and can stop or C D Free L S WALKS taylor’s Mistake W D bunks. ticket) N Y D R 18 onto Norwich Quay, past Sutton Reserve The routes described in this brochure cross land that is O Cemetery Bay, Cass Bay and at the Gondola. N R on Marine Drive at Ranui Cresent selling basic groceries, pushchairs. Y 74 Easy tramp with beautiful views over Marine Drive past Bayviewroad, Road Marine until youDrive. see Carry the Andersonsalong S pick up at Hilltop Tavern on request. If you book to catch Christchurch–Lyttelton Road Tunnel R K L E E Most routes cross private farms or land managed by private Andersons Road L Godley Head O C L C A Camping is permitted only by Sign of the Packhorse Hut. owned and managed by different people. You will find that A H A and just after the tunnel roundabout, take T J Dyers Pass Rd sandwiches and coffee. Children’s Bay headland to see animal D 5 C the bus at the end of your walk at Hilltop, make sure you let Road junction. Cross Marine Drive carefully just after the W SH 75 D T N D Rubbish: S trusts. If you see the owner, Estaff or Rvolunteers, please thank them Takamatua Bay Road A H Bayview Road N E AKAROA LYTTELTON R G Bins are generally not You need to pre-purchase camping tickets – there is a marked L lyttelton track signage is Apatchy and can vary Rin style, even on a R RIPON B LE 25 the steps on your left to Te Ana Marina. L L Dogs on short R GO U CO them know to call at the Tavern. Be there 15 min after the bus sculptures. Optional circular return via E O Walking Festival M V junction. Listen and be alert for traffic. Y Godley Head There are several bed and breakfasts in Diamond Harbour, you S A V H C for the privilege of walking on their land. Continuedout with access you. relies Check after picnicking to ensure you have not left

E B N ST provided. Carry all your rubbish R Old French Road L S E container next to the hut for the ticket stubs. There is no pre- B R T single walk. A COUNTRY WALKS O C LYTTELTON N I leash on beaches Follow the footpath and walk through the R N A I departure time from Akaroa. Springs Takamatua beach and quiet country C O D I DIAMOND T TOWN AND E E EXETER ST 75 can camp at Orton Bradley Park in summer (campervans year

e D on you behaving responsibly and treating properties with respect. Adderley Head R litter, and pick up any left by others. v H 101M 22 1 hour there and back a o r Te Ara 14 in L booking for camping (it’s ‘first in, best served’). 1 Dec – C S Make your way up quiet Andersons Road, keeping an ear out U e E s 1 Mar 9am – r W e marina area. Turn left at the end and go B Childrens Bay Farm, Woodills North andR South: TheseDriv Lyttelton Harbour roads. e Governors Bay A S • Y A round) or tramp to Packhorse Hut as part of a multi-day walk. 7pm n Ka P Halswell R T BANKS PENINSULA i WALKS B front Explore the hill country cradling Akaroa village (2.4 km) to Rhino r D L A T For Akaroa Shuttle book via www.akaroashuttle.co.nz or 2017 Long Bay Road V R S ik G Key T and at all times in Pony for traffic. There are lovely views and gardens to admire. O O E Toilets – a Most walks do NOT have toilets. Toilets are only K H G Dogs: HILLS WALKS B A D Quail Island l O routes traverse private farm land whose owners, veryI E R past the Graving Dock. Take a right turn E D E Respect the dog regulations applying to your chosen M omako P V R L 100 L O AKAROA R D C A Mountain biking on Te Ara Pātaka

E P Car Park on this mix of short walks, tramps and a bike ride ring 0800 500 929. Directions: S akaroa viewpoint 160 m climb Start under the Ngaio trees S 29 RN HARBOUR Point. All other places Rec Centre available at Heritage Park and Brocheries Road. Take this into

lyttelton Harbour l R D

5 walk.Charteris Keep dogs under strict control at all times. Remove all dog

generously allowR the public onto their properties to share their P D R Grubb swimming onto Charlotte Jane Quay and at the end O B Cottage W Pātaka

w When you reachBus Stops Marine Drive again,Public walk Toilets carefully on the D D pool Bay Bayvie U INC OXFORD ST DIAMOND •

H Please help us look after Diamond Harbour R V D Only some tracks are open to mountain biking. From View Point VILLAGE WALKS at the end of the Recreation Ground car L COASTAL AND VILLAGE 75km E HES Y T account before departing, and if caught short ensure any human under effective control. S For Akaroa French Connection book via W EB R B LN A T D faeces. Explore Lyttelton township and nearby hills love for the area. Please respect their generosityP by sticking B Playgrounds E B LIN ST HARBOUR 3 hours circuit (6½ km) R right again, into Naval Point. C Albion S A 0 75 verge on the southern side for about 200m, taking care when U T 100 200 300 400 500 m Square

N Gebbies Pass, mountain bikes are permitted only as far Y and its beautiful environment

N UB park past the boat storage compound. E RY ST l waste is well off the tracks and completely buried. Leaving tissue www.akaroabus.co.nz or ring 0800 800 575. 2018 DIRECTORY I WALK LOCATIONS R N L D SH 75 7 U E Discover Akaroa’s Hidden Gems P G Diamond to the routes described in the brochure and ensuring you To Akaroa D D H 4 I C and coastline on this mix of walks and tramps including Takamatua A T Orton (Summit Walkway) Quail Island M R Catholic & C you must walk on the road to cross a little stream. Turn up the B T RB S w S T Fires: BNZ as Sign of the Packhorse Hut (return the same way). From I C Dissenters e a M E B Cemetery R LOOP WALKS LONDON ST

D It is an excellent 2-day trip using public transport starting e Absolutely no fires are to be lit anywhere on walks, s E S Gebbies Harbour Directions from Naval Point: i c s CharterisON Bay paper around is totally unacceptable.E Bradley Public Toilet locations: the yacht club at the end of Charlotte Jane Quay. Walk behind the DOC InformationR T D T in this series of delightful walks v B leave the property as you found it. Expect to encounter farm NTE I w 99 QU S The track leads to a boardwalk and y a e E A B N A Lyttelton Farmers Market V O YCentre Vi y G Orton Bradley driveway and you will arrive at the park. There B Y O B E r C OXFORD ST A F Pass Rd Park a Port Levy saddle east the track is open for mountain biking, Harbou ch Road Y R C including billy boiling. A a P P O Old Co E T Yacht Club (every Sat morning) C at Diamond Harbour jetty, staying overnight at Rod Donald W D C A B l Stoddart Point Domain car park; under 16 9 7 B This book lists the walking and tramping tracks on Soak up sun and views like a local on these lovely loops Park near N ICH T Community Hall; On the Spot shop; Diamond Harbour beach; T U Police

Ohinetahi yacht club and follow the little track down to the left to the Torpedo V animals and occasionallyA farming operationsV in progress. T

Y 6 E R then a gravel road. Turn left on the road to Childrens Bay. S E S T Q QU 5 RubbishS – BinsS are NOT provided. Check for litter and carry all

Port levy S T 1 U V I Y M A R is an entrance fee of $5 per adult, $1 per child. You can walk E A except through Montgomery Park Scenic Reserve. Bikes need Banks Peninsula 1 R Banks Peninsula. R R E Y N R

1 N Hut, and catching a shuttle from Hilltop Tavern back to C B L E E O N R Reserve By Bus and Ferry: Take No 28 or No 525 bus from Christchurch Purau beach. 12 D S Grehan Valley Road O D Keep to public routes:

Boat Museum and Magazine Bay, and then right to the remains of N O E R rubbishR out with you. Just before the white bridge turn right onto the Childrens Bay Hinewai Reserve: StonyG Bay Peak is the upper part ofS the O R to Akaroa R S D your dog to Orton Bradley Park, but dogs are not permitted in to use the alternative exit route via Pettigrews Road. The L BA E Christchurch. Christchurch City B B Use the maps and tables inside to choose a track P Please keep to the routes described and

Allandale Y to Lyttelton. State your destination as Diamond Harbour and ask t Medical V

Weekend 1 November 4-5 H do not enter private property. Centaurus Road Centre

R d Fort Erskine. a a Rubbish: What is Orton Bradley Park? Walkway. You are now on private farmland, so please respect privately owned Hinewaio reserve. The lower part occupies

O D 4 P that suits your ability and requirements. AKAROADogs – C short track down to Rod Donald Hut is not suitable for bikes

G Cass Bay/ the park. Kennels are provided.B R n Respect theT dog regulations applying to your chosen Bins generally not provided. Carry all rubbish out. Cashmere Road

1 E for three zones. Pay by Metro card (cheaper) or cash. The ferry 1

Motukauatirahi Sumner Morgans u l

Reverend Bradley acquired land in Charteris Baye in 1859

Check after picnicking for litter, and pick up any left by others.

Pigeon Bay k

most of the Otanerito and Stony Bay valleys on the Pacific

the owners’ generosity in allowing you to be here. Dogs are Steps into

Y u Respect biodiversity:– either leave them at the top, or be prepared to push them up y 2

Dyers Pass Road walk, keep dogs under strict control and remove all faeces.

Before departing obtain theE further information

Road n From Magazine Bay cross the grass and go up the steps along

12 26 P C from Lyttelton to Diamond Harbour runs frequently from early till

13 Taylor’s Mistake O

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Weekend 2 Macraes Road A and later his son Orton took over the property. OrtonP November 11-12

Black Point B Take care not to tread on rare plants on

reserve Y R P side➞ of the ridgeline If you would like to explore Hinewai, pick absolutely forbidden, keep to the marked track, and give farm brochure listed for yourS chosen track Q – you will and down the hut track. Godley Head back rocky outcrops and leave plants and animals where you find them. Further information

l K S Y Dogs: Private 1 Lighthouse and Monument E a

10 18 damaged track to the main track. There is a short section that E late and takes 8 minutes. If you drive to Lyttelton, park in Norwich Respect the dog regulations applying to your chosen L

97 Upward for a loop return B tramp to CR Mountain bikes – NOT permitted on off-road tracks except

T D c 3 E land no D need this to locate the start and followBradley the track. had a keen interest in science and ecologyWAIREWA and a

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TCE up the separate brochure at the Akaroa Adventure Centre or C R V little akaloa raupo Bay animals plenty of space. P 100 e

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Monument Keep on the coastal track until you reach the first part of Cass Bay the top of the headland. MOUR QUAY

GEORGE SEY Harbour coastal road. From Charteris Bay continue for 5.5km to

Bay detail map Port Levy more information about the Trust.

infestations of the invasive weeds gorse and broom can act

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beach. From here, carry along the top of the cliff and then down to See Diamond River on these family friendly walks

the Diamond Harbour Village centre. Turn left on Waipapa Ave, OPENING HOURS Crater rim www.roddonaldtrust.co.nz

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20 Oxford Street, Lyttelton Youth 97 On exiting the farm, follow the road down to Kotare Lane. At

– farewell dinners for Captain Scott’s 1901 on the short and very steep path, starting at the road end of the Car ParkSign of the S QUAY (11–17 Child/infant Public transport

Mt Herbert/ Packhorse Hut Naval Point Purple Peak Curry Reserve: Curry Track is in this new attractions, Quail Island, Lyttelton Hay $15.00 $7.50 Free years) (0–10 years) Catch public bus #28 from central Christchurchbefore to Lyttelton, departing, and if caught short ensureWILLIAM any human waste is Head to Head Walkway Antarctic Expedition were held here, a reminder of Lyttelton’s Camping at Sign and then the ferry to Diamond Harbour. Bus and ferry Cass Bay / the of some meet and Harbour Diamond to head gentler, bit a something For US Lushingtons Bay Road Te Ahu Patiki of the Packhorse Yacht Club YR Tel: Motu-kauati-rahi timetables are available on www.metroinfo.co.nz. C helps fund the park, or join Friends of Orton Bradley Park Hut. It takes 3 hoursReserve from$5.00 Orton Bradley Hut 03 328-9093 23 the junction with Kingfisher Lane take the steps on the left Akaroa Shuttle and Akaroa French Connection provide Port Levy Saddle (basic hut Keep to public routes – Access to privateFarmers land and Market, reserves Lyttelton Museum reserve. Corsair Bay / $2.50 - Rod Donald Hut $15.00 $7.50ticket) $7.50 services between Christchurch and Akaroa, and can stop or from Brittan Terrace. It was completed in 1892. Pony Point / Otuherekio reserve purchased by NZ Native Forest Restoration Trust Motu-kauati-iti (basic hut Free pick up at Hilltop Tavern on request. If you bookwell to catch off the tracks and completely buried. Leaving tissue paper long role as the gateway to Antarctica. ticket) Make sure you display proof of your booking next to your the bus at the end of your walk at Hilltop, make sure you let Te Ara Email: Lyttelton / O¯ hinehou Inner Harbour Lyttelton Information Centre Port Levy Saddle Akaroa Museum Walks start here Magazine Bay / bunks. them know to call at the Tavern. Be there 15 min after the bus for repeat free entry. Stoddart Point [email protected] Head to Head is an aspirational projectPublished for by: Ta¯poa Park entrance to Packhorse Hut and from departure time from Akaroa. Harbour Timebank and more.

into a bush reserve and turn downhill to reach a gravel track at Camping is permitted only by Sign of the Packhorse Hut. Pātaka is on the routes described only. You do not have permission to You need to pre-purchase camping tickets – there is a marked • For Akaroa Shuttle book via www.akaroashuttle.co.nz or 9

Lyttelton around is totally Bins unacceptable. are NOTwith provided. assistance Carry allfrom your Rod rubbish Donald out withBanksFort Erskine Peninsula – Historic Trust and remains of coastal defences erected in 3 container next to the hut for the ticket stubs. There is no pre- ring 0800 500 929. (Summit Walkway) Web: WALKS Childrens Bay Rod Donald Hut booking for camping (it’s ‘first in, best served’). Department of Conservation Pilgrim’s Rock • For Akaroa French Connection book via www.lytteltonharbour.co.nz No public access past Pony Point. Wildside! the on walk a even and Evans, Mt at project new massive potential a walkway right around Lyttelton Harbour. The Rod Donald Hut Packhorse Hut it Mountainis about biking on Te Ara Pātaka a 6 hourwww.akaroabus.co.nz walk or ring 0800 to 800 575. Banks Peninsula the bottom. Turn right and then left on the sealed road to the commemorates the arrival of the First Four Only some tracks are open to mountain biking. From It is an excellent 2-day trip using public transport starting Le Bons Bay wander at random or look in buildings.

15 DOC Nursery 75 Gebbies Pass, mountain bikes are permitted only as far at Diamond Harbour jetty, staying overnight at Rod Donald ChristchurchBeyond City the Council.café you Thewill findreserve1885 25kms iswhen managed of lovelya Russian bywalks, the invasion was feared. Mahaanui/Sockburn office British Settler Ships for the Canterbury Settlement. as Sign of the Packhorse Hut (return the same way). From Hut, and catching a shuttle from Hilltop Tavern back to Rubbish: HERITAGE PARK | Motukarara Christchurch. Sign of the Packhorse Hut. Photo: DOC NEWTONS WATERFALL

Montgomery Port Levy saddle east the track is open for mountain biking, Domain locally built Diamond Harbour Coastal Cliff Track Diamond Harbour.except through Montgomery Park Scenic Reserve. Bikes need Panama Rock to use the alternative exit route via Pettigrews Road. The PO Box 11089 2 a River, Little above adventures two Farm, French at covenants private the all carpark waterfront. Here you will find toilets, Takamatua jetty, and a lovely Reserve Further information Kaituna short track down to Rod Donald Hut is not suitable for bikes team fromOrton’s neighbouring arboretum andHinewai rhododendron10 using similar gardens, principles. a charming • Contact DOC Christchurch Visitor Centre for all enquiries Torpedo Boat Museum Wharf regenerating forest75 along Te Ara Pátakale Bons Bay below Sculpture animals 4 Hilltop – either leave them at the top, or be prepared to push them up you. Check after picnicking to ensure you have not left litter, and I Track closures – Please stay off tracks when closed for lambing O O 8 Site of first telegraphReserve in NZ – sent in 1862Ō fromTaka a building Mātua75 or andGerman down the hut track. Bay?about Te Ara Pātaka. 4WD only OR CRE Memorial • See the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust website for S A forms an existing part of the project.Sockburn Expect 8443, Christchurch

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long Bay / otanerito visit book To Walkway7 across private farmland butof theirwear forests. sturdy Vastfootwear quantities and of sawn timber were exported Jetty To Port Levy walking up the walking track and steps to the in June 1840, chose this site to demonstrate their new ➞

strictly no dogs on the farm. to Christchurch on small ships, to supply the new city ➞ 5kms stony Bay sovereignty in August 1840 putting an end to the colonial Panama Rock 12kms

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R Britomart Monument site, where you will find the British Union Y Sealed roads Gully when he recorded his memoir at the age of 90, he added Backpacker A Bookings Nau mai, Welcome mai, Nau 100 Jack flying as it did when the French settlers arrived. Lyttelton Town and Hills Walks ➞ P The children of Childrens Bay“Some people may say, oh, what a fairy tale, it must have 7.5ha old growth totara forest protected and Purchase of this brochure helps to fund the work of the Trust. A 10 C Unsealed roads flea Bay This little bay is said to be named forbeen the a children dream. Theof the people of today have no idea whatever Read about the Trust at www.roddonaldtrust.co.nz Peraki Bay From the Monument continue on the track up hill,Donations and then welcome via our Givealittle page. (unsuitable for campervans) Dyke track French Eteveneaux family, founding settlers of Akaroa P with regard to our native birds.” For more information on Printed July 2018 Walk Locations are indicative only. Panama Road up Stanley Place. Turn left on Onuku Road and return to the R 4WD only who arrived in 1840 on the Comte de Paris. In their time, Banks Peninsula walks see A

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Akaroa Head PANAMA ROCK settlers running small farms and raising big families. Schools R Onuku Road until you reach the bush track to makeAkaroa your Village way Walks T

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7 it created. Enjoy expansive views over Le dairying and growing cocksfoot grass, from which seed A For many years the family owned and lived in a cottage Diamond Harbour Coastal and D Bons Bay to the Pacific Lavericks ocean vehicles. Ridgeand distant Road Langer was laboriously harvested for export. The settlers worked Village Loops WD Lodge now known as the Langlois-Eteveneaux cottage. The Kaikouras. to tame the raw landscape and planted new trees from their PRINTED ON RECYCLED/FSC CERTIFIED PAPER centrepiece of the Akaroa Museum, it is probably the Rare Plants

(Suitable 2 The Grunt homelands, such as oaks, walnuts, ash and apples. Eventually Wilson Hugh by Illustrations Getting There: oldest house in Canterbury. dairy and grass seed industries were replaced by grazing entrance public access secured Full walk: 2 hours circular, sheep and cattle leading to a depopulation of rural areas. Access short or full walk here): From Le 3.4 km, 300 m climb Bons Bay turn up Lavericks Ridge Road As you will experience BANKS PENINSULA Josef Langer Trust trim on these walks, the Banks Peninsula Sun Hebe AcknowledgementsShort walk: 30 mins before the beach and make a sharp left 7 The land you are walking on belongs to a private Trust, formed community today is return, 1 km, 100 m climb at the top of the hill. The reserve entrance 4 FUN FILLED WEEKENDSafter German immigrant The TrustJosef welcomesLanger NOVEMBER left day funds visitors in his to estate picnic to on 4-26focused on restoring White gentian After the Festival is a further 4 kms. From Summit Road assist with the restoration of the natural environment. the bush, protecting The Banks Peninsula WalkingSAFETY Festival ADVICE is organised and produced by four local turn onto Camerons Track just east of rare biodiversity and Orton Bradley Park Langer Lodge: Did you know there are over 100 public walks on Banks Peninsula? organisations. Steep cliffs and some the Okains Bay Road junction. Continue bringing back the Village the veranda of the Lodge, a small tramping hut. The Lodge is Walking Festival nearly 5 kms along Camerons Track to birds. Feel inspired after the festival to get out exploring on your own using these handy road walking. Keep Le Bons< 2.5kmBay available overnight for groups who contribute through active children very close Lavericks Ridge Road. The entrance is vehicles WD Lower entrance Panama Road conservation work or youth education A small campground maps and brochures available from Banks Peninsula Information Centres. Workson summit in partnershipand road. withat the markedothers farm to gate promote below the peakaccess, (opening in 2018) is also andavailable a small for fee family charged. or other Please groups. contact YOUTH CHALLENGES Steep unformed tracks. about 600m from the (Suitable Panama 4Road biodiversity and knowledge of Banks Peninsula. The Larger groups may be able to stay at the nearby Le Bons Take your walking pole. junction. BANKS PENINSULA WALKS NEW TOPO map shows all of Banks Trust is delighted to be leading this pan-peninsula Environmental Education Centre. Pre-booking is essential Access on narrow gravel for overnight stays 2017 DIRECTORY

DOC Information Peninsula on a single topographical map roads. Unsuitable for Centre This book lists the walking and tramping tracks on festival organising team. reserveBANKS manager Robin Burleigh: PENINSULA [email protected] Banks Peninsula. Panama Road entrance Christchurch City Use the maps and tables inside to choose a track Centaurus Road that suits your ability and requirements. Cashmere Road sumner large campervans. Dyers Pass Road Before departing obtain the further information taylor’s Mistake including all the main walking tracks. Strictly no freedom camping allowed. brochure listed for your chosen track – you will Godley Head need this to locate the start and follow the track.

See Lyttelton Halswell The Trust generously allows dogs on reserve. Well- detail Walking Tracks State Highway 75 map akaroa lyttelton Harbour 75km Tramping (Hiking) Tracks Sealed Roads Ferry Te Ara Pa¯taka Unsealed roads See Governor’s (unsuitable for campervans) From the Bay detail map Port levy Dogs: See Diamond Getting There: Crater rim walkway is on city side of Harbour Pigeon Bay Mt. Pleasant Mt. Pleasant Mt. Cavendish, detail map Castle Rock/ Gondola Gun Emplacements Pilot goat eradication trial – theWitch Hill/ The Tors first “Pest Free Te Tihi o Kahukura Te Upoko o Kur-i Crater Rim Pioneer Women’s little akaloa walkway Memorial Tai Tapu A non-profit grassroots organisation committed

Major Hornbrook Somes Reserve Entrance Road Urumau Reserve Entrance Monument Whakaraupo¯ behaved dogs can be off lead under effective control. Please Governors Bay Road Reserve Entrance Bridle Path Tunnel Entrance Rock to Lyttelton only and easier access to Langer Lodge): Reach Panama Road okains Bay

Rapaki Packhorse Hut Mt Herbert/ Hay Cass Bay / Te Ahu Patiki Motu-kauati-rahi Reserve

- Corsair Bay / Pony Point / Otuherekio Motu-kauati-iti

Lyttelton / O¯ hinehou Inner Harbour Port Levy Saddle Magazine Bay / Lyttelton Information Centre Museum Lyttelton Ta¯poa to buildingfrom a sustainable, the Le Bons Bay village connected or the Summit community. Road via Lavericks control dogs so that this privilege remains open to others. Rod Donald Hut

DOC Nursery 75 le Bons Bay Motukarara Montgomery Panama Rock Kaituna Reserve Hilltop Reserve 75 4WD only Duvauchelle - Otepa-totu Cass Peak/Orongomai Barrys Reserve Mt. Ada Marleys Hill Bay Sign of the Bellbird Sign of the Kiwi shelter Robinsons Coronation Hill Little River Ridge Road junction. (2½ km up Panama Road from Le Bons Bay Dyers Pass Bay Road Okuti French Onawe Reserve Farm Kaituna Hickory Bay Private lake ellesmere / Land Quarry Project Lyttelton started the walking festival and this Ellangowan Waihora Bay Heights Road Reserve Saddle Hill Walking 11 lake forsyth / Wairewa or 1 km down from Lavericks Ridge Road junction). Governors Bay Jetty Bossu Road Wainui See Akaroa

Allandale Car Park Ohinetahi Church Lane detail map Governors Bay Hotel Sandy Bay Paua Bay 100 Birdlings Flat Governors Bay Hinewai

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Mountain bikes permitted, permitted, bikes Mountain

Stony Bay Peak/ Taraterehu,

Lookout Spur

Sealed roads Gully

Before departing Before To Gebbies 806m Brasenose/ Pass Road Brocheries Road trail head Flag Peak Oteauheke Hinewai Re serve: Mt. Berard/O¯ toki Walking Directions from Lavericks Ridge Road entrance: parking behind ridge.

100 includes S tony Bay Peak and Access from Cabstand corner

13k ms of t r ac ks on other side

Browntop Stony Bay Flea Bay Road

High fire danger fire High Skyline Beech Lookout Saddle Purple Peak Unsealed roads trail head (behind ridge) flea Bay – register intentions with a trusted contact. trusted a with intentions register – Cabstand Te Piki o Te Ake Saddle maybe muddy maybe Peraki Bay

Orton Bradley (unsuitable for campervans)

Park Car Park

Cliffs and other hazards other and Cliffs Misty Peaks

– absolutely no fires to be lit anywhere. lit be to fires no absolutely –

some up and down hill, hill, down and up some Paripai shortcut Reserve Summit climb. Dogs on leads only leads on Dogs

Walking on formed track, track, formed on Walking Heritage Park No food or water available on tracks on available water or food No Purau (Reserve car parking here)

Purple Peak Akaroa Head

Hunters Orton Bradley Park Worsley House site Curry Reserve

Gully Rd Stony Bay Road – keep children under supervision. under children keep – Entrance Long Bay Road Tracks slippery after rain after slippery Tracks Charteris Bay access from SH75

Charteris Bay Yacht Club

Lighthouse Road

Church Bay effective control effective

When cloud covers hilltops covers cloud When Diamond Harbour formed track formed Safety is your responsibility Black Point

Stoddart Point Grehan Valley Rd

– take these on the longer tracks. longer the on these take – Reserve (Parking. No vehicles Jetty beyond here.) – sturdy footwear and walking sticks recommended. sticks walking and footwear sturdy – Whakamaru

Dogs permitted under under permitted Dogs Jetty Beach Easy tramping on well well on tramping Easy

Hills are colder than Akaroa than colder are Hills Tree Crop Enter through the gate labelled Josef Langer Trust. For a 30 – plan, prepare and equip yourself well Farm

97 Access Diamond Harbour Stanley Park Aylmers Valley Road on Ferry from Lyttelton

– choose a lower level walk. level lower a choose –

Weather can change quickly quickly change can Weather L’Aube Hill

and downhill and Access Quail Island on Black Heritage Centre Choose an appropriate walk for your abilities from this book,

weather conditions on the day and prepare well. prepare and day the on conditions Cat Ferry from Lyttelton weather

track with prolonged up up prolonged with track – always take layered and waterproof clothing. waterproof and layered take always – Plan, prepare and equip yourself well. well. yourself equip and prepare Plan,

from Woodills North or by car from Long Bay Road. Bay Long from car by or North Woodills from pick up a detailed brochure and follow the safety tips

Otamahua / Quail Island

Tramping on unformed unformed on Tramping Main Beach Finally, choose a route that is appropriate for your ability and and ability your for appropriate is that route a choose Finally,

3 commemorative tree plantings with great views. Access on foot foot on Access views. great with plantings tree commemorative

– check the forecast before departure. before forecast the check – Recreation Ground

Garden of Tane Safety is your responsibility responsibility your is Safety Diamond Harbour Car Park

Dalys Wharf Akaroa Lighthouse Childrens Bay Heritage Park Park Heritage Trampers – Banks Peninsula New Topo topographical map Main Wharf

Britomart Monument

conservation operations. operations. conservation Akaroa highly recommended Walking Directions from Panama Road entrance:

Easy walk and scenic picnic spot in in spot picnic scenic and walk Easy Best combined with Woodills North. Woodills with combined Best

return expect walkers to respect their property and farm or or farm and property their respect to walkers expect return minute return short climb to the top of Panama Rock (also known

97 See for current track status Woodills South Woodills www.bpwalks.co.nz

available due to the generosity of our landowners, who in in who landowners, our of generosity the to due available Hinewai reserve on other side. other on reserve Hinewai

to ridgeline trail heads for shorter routes and access to lower lower to access and routes shorter for heads trail ridgeline to

2 historic streets and a country track. track. country a and streets historic 2 etiquette notes on the back of the brochure. These walks are are walks These brochure. the of back the on notes etiquette Promotes the Akaroa & the Bays region as a tourism

Park and the lower part of Purple Peak Curry Reserve. Curry Peak Purple of part lower the and Park

road. Other options include extension along Misty Peaks, driving driving Peaks, Misty along extension include options Other road. Book and images copyright Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust, 2017. No reproduction without written permission. Concept and research by Peninsula Projects. Graphic Design by RGB Design and Print. Information current as of March 2017 Please read the safety notes below the main map and the the and map main the below notes safety the read Please 1

Best combined with Woodills South, or add in a visit to Heritage Heritage to visit a in add or South, Woodills with combined Best We have expanded and developed

5 800 m to Stony Bay Peak with ridge walk and descent on quiet quiet on descent and walk ridge with Peak Bay Stony to m 800

Woodills North Woodills

Skyline Circuit Circuit Skyline 8 road, go through the gate labelled Josef Langer Trust and ensure you and follow the detailed directions and map for your walk. walk. your for map and directions detailed the follow and you

as Kellers Peak) follow the mowed track marked with white Excellent 2 hour easy tramp. Lovely views. views. Lovely tramp. easy hour 2 Excellent

have selected your route using this map, take the brochure with with brochure the take map, this using route your selected have

lower reserve. lower

100 climbing tramp day full Spectacular

SH75

Childrens Bay Childrens Signposting is patchy in places, and varied in style. Once you you Once style. in varied and places, in patchy is Signposting For a shorter walk drive to Heritage Park and loop around the the around loop and Park Heritage to drive walk shorter a For

circular route returning via Takamatua and quiet back roads. roads. back quiet and Takamatua via returning route circular

Curry Reserve. In good weather add a climb up Stony Bay Peak. Peak. Bay Stony up climb a add weather good In Reserve. Curry

return tramp to the Rhino on the ridge, or extend to a 3 hour hour 3 a to extend or ridge, the on Rhino the to tramp return

tracks except where indicated where except tracks

circuit around Purple Peak visiting Heritage Park and Purple Peak Peak Purple and Park Heritage visiting Peak Purple around circuit

Children’s Bay Farm Walkway Farm Bay Children’s karoa

Old Coach Road Coach Old

as they approach. approach. they as Round the Mountain via Curry Track Curry via Mountain the Round

Park Car Ground Recreation

destination that welcomes, involves and satisfies you close it behind you. Follow the farm track to the next gate

8 7

beauty spot. beauty Festival

with low traffic levels, but listen for vehicles and get off the road road the off get and vehicles for listen but levels, traffic low with

topped poles. On a good day this magnificent rock dome makes . Mountain bikes are not permitted on off-road off-road on permitted not are bikes Mountain

Newtons Falls Newtons

Where walks are routed on roads, these are generally very quiet quiet very generally are these roads, on routed are walks Where

An easy 1 hour hour 1 easy An 100 Grehan Rue 2 Woodills Road Woodills

N Dalys Wharf Dalys

Rue Lavaud Rue

drivers. Avoid in low cloud. low in Avoid drivers.

Gentle walk to a traditional Akaroa Akaroa traditional a to walk Gentle

Black lines show sealed roads and brown lines gravel roads. roads. gravel lines brown and roads sealed show lines Black

Full day day Full

process. process.

Trail heads at both ends of ridge track give easier options for for options easier give track ridge of ends both at heads Trail

Main Wharf Main Banks Peninsula Walks is comprehensive

climbing, rougher surfaces and require a greater level of fitness. fitness. of level greater a require and surfaces rougher climbing,

4 accessible via the Skyline Circuit track, is a leader in this this in leader a is track, Circuit Skyline the via accessible 6 & Trampers combine with Skyline circuit to add extra ridge walking. walking. ridge extra add to circuit Skyline with combine Trampers

Main Beach Main Dashed lines indicate the more challenging tramps, which involve involve which tramps, challenging more the indicate lines Dashed

Misty Peaks Peaks Misty and encourage native regeneration. Hinewai reserve, reserve, Hinewai regeneration. native encourage and and then up through beautiful bush. When you reach the junction

Beach Road Beach

Concept and text – Peninsula Projects, Graphics-RGB Design & print and Steve Pearce Illustration. Cover Photo: Hollie Hollander. Copyright Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust. No reproduction without permission. walks. gentle the show lines red Solid involved. is climbing much are working hard to protect the original forest remnants remnants forest original the protect to hard working are an excellent spot for a picnic.

Mountain bikers ride from the village. village. the from ride bikers Mountain

Rue Balguerie Rue

enabling you to see how they are accessed from Akaroa and how how and Akaroa from accessed are they how see to you enabling to the hills. Today the local community and landowners landowners and community local the Today hills. the to

& visitors. It is the local business association that is

Akaroa Lighthouse Akaroa regeneration have restored a patchwork of vegetation vegetation of patchwork a restored have regeneration

The adjacent map shows all the routes from a harbour viewpoint, viewpoint, harbour a from routes the all shows map adjacent The

1 1 Farm Rue Jolie Rue

Since then a mix of exotic tree planting and native bush bush native and planting tree exotic of mix a then Since 4 &

Purple Peak Road Peak Purple

Tree Crop Tree

the trail heads and do parts of the routes. the of parts do and heads trail the Akaroa District Promotions access from SH75 from access

were shorn bare, with less than 1% of the forest left. left. forest the of 1% than less with bare, shorn were with the track to Langer Lodge turn left to reach the Lodge.

directory to roads back the on hills the up drive can you climbing, listingless with and grading all the walks in 1

use of fire to create open pastureland. By 1900 the hills hills the 1900 By pastureland. open create to fire of use

Long Bay Road Bay Long

2,4

together by quiet back roads. If you want a shorter experience experience shorter a want you If roads. back quiet by together 5 began logging on a commercial scale, making extensive extensive making scale, commercial a on logging began 3 &

(No vehicles past this point) this past vehicles (No

Enjoy the Beaches 4

European settlers arrived in the mid 19th century and soon soon and century 19th mid the in arrived settlers European Grehan Valley Road Valley Grehan

Banks Peninsula” project to linked Sreserves, public and private and farmland private tracks, eed funding Pest

Magazine Bay, Cass Bay and Corsair Bay have sandy beaches, safe swimming here) parking car (Reserve

your own steam. The routes traverse a mix of stock droving droving stock of mix a traverse routes The steam. own your For the full tramp, follow the track toward the summit for a few

the southern end of the crater rim above Wainui. above rim crater the of end southern the

Heritage Park Heritage Junction

and picnic tables. Cass and Corsair5 also offer road access with parking, toilets and

car behind and enjoy the challenge of climbing the hills under under hills the climbing of challenge the enjoy and behind car 6 hills, creating the rocky peak (Mt. Bossu) that dominates dominates that Bossu) (Mt. peak rocky the creating hills,

Hoheria the link between tourism and community. Then follow the directions at left from Langer Lodge to reach the

playgrounds. Great for family adventures. depart from and return to Akaroa village, so you can leave your your leave can you so village, Akaroa to return and from depart site

stick, Tuhiraki. When finished, he buried Tuhiraki in these these in Tuhiraki buried he finished, When Tuhiraki. stick, 2017

Worsley House Worsley Hut fees per night carved out the South Island’s lakes with his giant digging digging giant his with lakes Island’s South the out carved The eight main routes described in this brochure are designed to to designed are brochure this in described routes main eight The

Make a loop on the bus 4

5 & the area and where to find further information.

ancestor. Stories tell of how the ancestor Ra ancestor the how of tell Stories ancestor.

100 Reserve Curry 6 4 rewarded with superb views, pastoral scenery and native bush. bush. native and scenery pastoral views, superb with rewarded

Pa steps until you reach a power pole and then turn left. Follow the taka o Ra o taka Purple Peak Purple

100 be will Akaroa surrounding hills the of exploration your ride, bike kaihautu so lush with food resources that they named the place Te Te place the named they that resources food with lush so

Cabstand

– the food storehouse of their great great their of storehouse food the – Adult

- Whether you choose a short walk, easy tramp, hike or mountain- or hike tramp, easy walk, short a choose you Whether

approximately 800 years ago. The forest and sea were were sea and forest The ago. years 800 approximately summit and return down the Grunt to your car again.

kaihautu

- (18+ years)

Stony Bay Road Bay Stony Youth The Waitaha people were the first humans to arrive arrive to humans first the were people Waitaha The

Discover Akaroa hill country hill Akaroa Discover

Cabstand corner Cabstand

- 97

Waterfall

Humans in the crater the in Humans Coastal Walk To Pony Point Reserve Sign of the (11–17 Child/infant Public transport

Access from from Access

Skyline Beech Lookout Beech Skyline Major Hornbrook Packhorse Hut 100

Paripai shortcut Paripai years) (0–10 years) Catch public bus #28 from central Christchurch to Lyttelton,

Enjoy the Beaches ridge. behind Track track marked with orange pigtails down through a short section

Enjoy the Beaches $15.00 $7.50 Free

on the fertile volcanic and loess soil. soil. loess and volcanic fertile the on A coastal meander with views over 101 trail head parking parking head trail V

Te Piki o Te Ake Te o Piki Te and then the ferry to Diamond Harbour.100 Bus and ferry

Christchurch Gondola The hills were once cloaked in dense forest which thrived thrived which forest dense in cloaked once were hills The Magazine Bay, Cass Bay and Corsair Bay have sandy beaches, safe swimming and picnic tables. 101 Camping at Sign Magazine Bay, Cass Bay and Corsair Bay have sandy beaches, safe swimming and picnic tables.

Lyttlelton port visiting historic sites, Road Brocheries ➞ Stunning views of Lyttelton Lyttelton and Coastal Walk to Pony Point

timetables are available on www.metroinfo.co.nz.

99 Harbour Basin

Cass and Corsair also offer road access with parking, toilets and Saddle playgrounds. Great for family SO of the Packhorse

5 & Christchurch City Purple Peak Purple can be very slippery to walk on after rain. rain. after on walk to slippery very be can sandy swimming beaches and ending M Please help us look after Lyttelton and its

H E Lighthouse Road Road Lighthouse S R

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5 97 U $5.00 A D

13kms of tracks on other side other on tracks of 13kms 6 trim W H Akaroa Shuttle and Akaroa French Connection provide & adventures. E Hut

pale clay – called loess soil – over the volcanic rock. This This rock. volcanic the over – soil loess called – clay pale adventures. Info Centre – Pony Point TERRAC A at an elevated scenic reserve. Ideal for E beautiful environment

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includes Stony Bay Peak and and Peak Bay Stony includes $2.50

E C A services between Christchurch and Akaroa, and can stop or and blew it over the peninsula, where it formed a layer of of layer a formed it where peninsula, the over it blew and R T 2 hours one way (4.4km) O

families and part of the Head to Head Browntop S S E Toilets:

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ticket)

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have toilets. Public toilets next to

(basic hut

R R L of bush and then a steep slope known as the Grunt. When you Free

into riverbeds on the plain. Strong winds picked this up up this picked winds Strong plain. the on riverbeds into pick up at Hilltop Tavern on request. If you book to catch

Bus back to Lyttelton. A D

walkway. Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre, in Albion Square, Corsair Hinewai Reserve Hinewai Lighthouse and Monument Bridle Path Walkway W

The #535 bus runs along Governors Bay Road hourly every day early evening. Stan Helms Track 40 mins to Summit Rd

6 The #535 bus runs along Governors Bay Road hourly every day until early evening. Te Ara

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During the last ice age, alpine glaciers deposited fine dust dust fine deposited glaciers alpine age, ice last the During To Summit Rd Carpark (1 hour) S front A ticket) E R Y

trail head head trail LW S RD the bus at the end of your walk at Hilltop, make sure you let Organises community events and provides support Naval Point – Pony Point O

Boardwalk to Childrens Bay Y D

N D Make sure you Bay,display Cass proof Bay andof your at the booking Gondola. next to your

Check C Check www.metroinfo.co.nz for the daily timetable. Use the P R R www.metroinfo.co.nz S D LYTTELTON

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Directions from Information Centre: for the daily timetable. Use the S Y L D Cemetery

N E them know to call at the Tavern. Be there 15 min after the bus reached it and turned the island into a peninsula. peninsula. a into island the turned and it reached 1½ hours one way. W R L

O timetable for return buses to Lyttelton and be at your chosen bus stop at the time stated for Rapaki. bunks. timetable for return buses to Lyttelton and be at your chosen busLyttelton stop &at Rapakithe time to the Eastgate bus is scheduled Y S H

Misty Peaks Reserve Peaks Misty Lyttelton & Ra¯ paki to Eastgate a L N o d K

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to leave Ra¯ paki. The bus will be along in a few minutes and will have Eastgate on the front. At Cass W R E

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Stony Bay Peak/ Taraterehu, Taraterehu, Peak/ Bay Stony n Camping is permitted only by Sign of the Packhorse Hut.

T D O N C out with you. Check after picnicking to ensure you have not left

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Baythe toilets. you can The wait bus at backthe beach to Lyttelton toilets willand have flag Eastgatethe bus down.on the front.Walking Walking along the along main the Governorsmain road Bayis O • For Akaroa Shuttle book via www.akaroashuttle.co.nz or

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H C t ¯ toki toki You need to pre-purchase camping tickets – there is a marked HILLS WALKS A

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Y A E n N T EXETER ST (Summit Walkway)

S B in this series of delightful walks S C ring 0800 500 929. I l container next to the hut for the ticket stubs. There is no pre- R I L R point in the crater rim to create Akaroa harbour. The The harbour. Akaroa create to rim crater the in point C A onto Norwich Quay, past Sutton A O e A T I E Some hill walking. D N D H

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V W E B A R G keep dogs under strict control at all times. Remove all dog faeces.

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height as streams carved out the radial pattern of valleys valleys of pattern radial the out carved streams as height L V D Banks Peninsula

N L O O R C back Rec Centre c www.akaroabus.co.nz or ring 0800 800 575. Turn left onto Godley Quay. Take the O K

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Mountain biking on Te Ara Pātaka

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track until you reach the first part of Cass Bay beach. From a Museum curator. where expressly indicated. On shared use tracksUS W give way to BOARDWALKPublished TO by: CHILDRENS BAY side of the ridgeline If you wouldNaval like Point to explore Hinewai, pick CYR Farm animals – from Brittan Terrace. It was completed in 1892. Harbour Timebank and more. Web: www.lytteltonharbour.co.nz 8 here carry along the top of the cliff and then down to the main always remembered crossing theMorgans river bar into the estuary Yacht Club Lighthouse WALKS Department of Conservation 2 British Hotel – farewellthe boardwalk. dinners for When Captain the boardwalk Scott’s 1901 finishes turn left and walkers.walk 9 Fort Erskine Easy tramp with beautiful views over Beach via Beach on a particularly still morning. Road up the separate brochure at the Akaroa Adventure Centre or grazing on most of these walks. –Please Historic give remains them plenty of coastal of space defences erected in LIGHTHOUSEMahaanui/Sockburn AND MONUMENT office Children’s Bay Farm Walkway Cass Bay beach. At theestuary end 2.7kms of the > beach cross the stream – this2.5kms > Antarctic Expeditionalong were the held quiet here, gravel a reminder road to theof Lyttelton’s little beach. Absolutely no fires are to be lit anywhere on walks, Children’s Bay headland to see animal settlement) was on the shore and further upstream stuntedat a reserve entrance. HinewaiFires –includes old7 growth forest and and go past them1885 quietly. when a Russian invasionWhy wasis a feared. Lighthouse in a sheltered harbour? PO Box 11089 WALKS involves a bit of boulder hopping – and then go up the concrete long -role as the gateway to Antarctica. AKAROA’S BUSH BACKDROP Saturday 4 November. Kids free. See inside for bookingsculptures. Optional circular return via information.totara trees stretched their boughsHoliday over the water. much regenerating forest.including Under the billy skilledLighthouse boiling. management and of Monument Leave10 gates Torpedo as you Boat find Museum them. In Thegroups Lighthouse – please ensurewas relocated from the harbourHERITAGE entrance PARK | NEWTONS WATERFALL Sockburn 8443, Christchurch From the beach you may continue on the Childrens Bay Farm Gates – COASTAL WALK TO PONY POINT RESERVE boat ramp. Take the path to the right of the toilets and follow the 3 Pilgrim’s Rock Park – formerly the Powder Magazine New Zealand to continue steeply uphill through the bush. When you pop out of Please close the gates at theVisit reserve two of entrances Akaroa’s and iconic historic sites, Takamatua beach and quiet country struck him mostcommemorates deeply was the dawnarrival chorus. of the first botanistFour Hugh Wilson, Hinewai has demonstrated how block Building and now housingcliffs the Torpedo when it wasBoat. replaced Long buried by a more modern device. Now FRENCH CEMETERY Walkway across private farmland but wear sturdy footwear andGates – people at the front wait for those behind, or shut gates thatSign were of the Packhorse Hut. Photo: DOC November 2016 NOOKS AND CRANNIES roads. coastal track to the left to make a gentle climb up to Pony Point Britishwas Settler familiar Ships“It with wasfor Peninsula thesomething Canterbury birdsong, lovely Settlement. and he beautifulhad never to heard hear 6 Sutton Reserve and make a return circuit withon elevated Purau BeachAccess and to relocatedprivateit island maintained here and in reserves 1999. by Museumvolunteers open who open it most SundaysTheDAY Trust in exists TRAMPS/HIKES to foster sustainable management and Millenium infestations of the invasive weeds commemoratesgorse and broom the can original act port and hasshut. a Use stiles where provided and climb gates at hinge end. Start under the Ngaio trees 4 strictly no dogs on the farm. otherwise leave gates as you find them. If you are in a group conservation in partnership with others and to improveEditing and STANLEYpublic design: PARK Reserve. Make a loop returnBridge to Cass Bay on the short steep path Site of itfirst like this.telegraph in NZ as nature’s nurserycarved by providingpou by local a canopy carver coverCaine protecting Tauwhare harbour that represents views. Sunday 1pm-3pm and for summergroup bookings. and when Features cruisealks shipsa fantastic are in port. A tour is highly chosen route as most walks on Banks 1 hour there and back – sent in 1862 from a building W WOODILLSaccess to assist NORTH with understanding | WOODILLS of theSOUTH environment.Publishing Team, DOC National Office Directions:Okains Bay Millenium River Walk here. and the sound seemed to come from every tree loud and ensure the people at the front either wait for those behind,Keep to or public routes – recommended. HALF DAY TRAMPS/HIKES

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he added up the walking track and steps to the Hugh by Illustrations markswhen the boundary hostile warriors between concealed Cass Bay aboard P the BritishAkaroa Brig Village Walks who arrived in 1840 on the Comte de Paris. In8 their Graving time, Dock and the Ma- must have been a dream.Rue The Lavaud people of today havereserve no idea purchased by NZ –Native theRespect South Forest biodiversity Island’s Restoration only dryTrust dock can be seen Respect biodiversityori – settlement of ElizabethRa-paki. A destroyedcarved pou, it, alsoand t massacredbyram the inhabitants.Akaroa Harbour and Bays For more information on when the hills were still covered in forest, Childrens Bay Britomart Monument site, where you will find the Britishun HebeUnion ay hill Akaroa Country Walks Banks Peninsula walks Peninsula aren’t well signposted yet. Free Banks Peninsulathen a gravel road. Turn left on the road into Childrens Bay. cludingCaines Tauwhare, bench seats, and a grassy area overlooking CHILDRENS BAY FARM WALKWAY initial project whatever with regarday Museum to our across native thebirds.” road from thewith river assistance from Rod Donaldon rare Banks plants Peninsula on rocky Trust and Leave plants and animals where you Lessfind them.than a decade D later, the leBritish government, having b _ DD see R101731 Just before the white bridge turn right onto the Childrens Bay Children’s Bay would have been sandy, but now after deforestation it Jack flying as it did when the French settlers arrived.the harbour-make it perfect for picnics. orisa signature onock the Treaty of Waitangi www.bpwalks.co.nz Road. Climb the stile and turn right along the road back to the okains kaik where sheChristchurch would City Council. Theoutcrops reserve and is managedleave by the banks Peninsula obtainedhalf the final Ma r Kingfisher Recreation GroundThe has become a mud flat. Walkway. You are now on private farmland, so please respect 5 Panama PRIN TE D ON RE Car Park team from neighbouring The park Hinewai is plantsonFrom Christchurch using and the similaranimals Monument City principles. Council continue on the track up hill, and then in June 1840, chose this site to demonstrate their new CYC LE D/ FS C C ERT IFIED P Road holds specimens of some of the birds that became extinct- ori, and white gentian APER Printed August 2016 the owners’ generosity in allowing you to be here. Dogs are Kotare Lane obertFor Gilbert’s many years lifetime the andfamily a beautiful owned andphoto lived of his in a cottage where you find them. sovereignty in August 1840 putting an end to the colonial River Road ONWARD TO ORTON BRADLEY Akaroain r Heritage Park: up Stanley Place. Turn left on Onuku Road and return to the absolutely forbidden, keep to the marked track, and give farm now known as the Langlois-Eteveneaux cottage. The ambitions of the French. Join Youthtown on an overnight trip to Langer Lodge at PanamaOkains Bay Road Reserve,mother, Heni Te Marino. TheLe little land, and managed Christchurch by a Trust CityLighthouse of localCouncil volunteers. purchasedeither via Hempleman this Drive or continue along animals plenty of space. join hercentrepiece relatives to of go the shellfishing Akaroa Museum, was short-lived it is probably after the the Onuku Road until you reach the bush track to make your way Years 7 – 10 Victoria Park Mistyyou Peaks: will find settlersoldest- arrived. house in Canterbury. The track climbs through bush and past the giraffe sculptures - tua means- to rest after a farm to create a new reserveback in 2007. down Most through of it is the leased Anglican Cemetery. This brochure is produced by the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Continue from Charteris Bay Yacht Taka Ma ori visiting from Trust. The Trust exists to foster sustainable management and and eventually ends at a stile. The rhino sculpture ahead marks What is Ortonout as Bradleya working farm whilePark Council ranger staff develop banks Peninsula OTHER BROCHURES AVAILABLE Ō Taka Mātua or GermanFlax, Bay? or harakeke, was a very important plant to Ma conservation in partnership with others and PRINTEDto improve ON RECYCLED/FSC public Purchase of this brochure helps to fund the Club to lovely Orton Bradley Park to donald IN THIS SERIES the top of the headland. The traditional name O one that Heni and her relativesReverend would have Bradley handledmore daily. recreationalacquired opportunities. land in Charteris Please stay on Bay the routes in 1859 rod access to assist with understanding of the environment.CERTIFIED PAPER work of the Trust. Lushingtons Bay Road Printed March 2017 Akaroa Village Walks enjoy the historicjourney. buildings It recalls earlierand timestheThe when trim strong Ma fibre obtained from its leaves was useddescribed to make to avoid The disturbing Woodills andfarm Purple operations. Peak double fence Purchase of this brochure helps to fund the work of the Trust. To continue to Takamatua follow the orange and yellow markers ay would be complete- ori without artefacts, a visit many to its Diamond Harbour and Bays 12km 3/4 hours. b other parts- ori of the Peninsula wouldmany breakpractical their items journey essentialand later to everyday his sonlife. Orton took over the property. Orton Read about the/fs Trustc at okains Stock routes: led over a stile and then downhill. The track bears left through gorse, Other things to do incafé Okains before Bay exploring walks in the examples in the Museum including fish traps, bird traps, www.roddonaldtrust.co.nzDiamond re cyc Harbour village centre and jetty School House Road - ori and Colonial Museum. The Museumat this houses beautiful place before continuing over the hill to This brochure is produced by the d on no trip to Bradley had a keentracks interest are used by in local science farmers forand droving ecology stock and and a inte Bons Bay. Book direct with [email protected] along a deer fence and right beside a row of pines. Turn left or 03 381 3245.kete, and fishing lines and cloaks. Trust. The Trust exists to foster sustainable managementPr ed PaPer and Akaroa. To imagine the scene in those times, strip away ifi Total walkingexcellent time Mafrom Park. occasional grazing, and the ranger teamconservation mow the in partnershiptracks. with others and toc ertimproveconnections public when it meets another farm track. Sculpture animals For more information on Printed March 2014 lk the houses and cloak it in trees.Today, walkers whogreat venture appreciation into Victoria Park beside for the the role of trees in eco-systems.access to assist with understanding He of the environment. On the first part of the Children’sa nationally Bay Farm significant Walkway collectionyou of Ma Banks Peninsula walks Diamond Harbour Wharf river will find thick stands of flax thriving. These were see www.bpwalks.co.nz All walks start at the wharf or Stoddart Point Domain Car Park On exiting the farm, follow the road down to Kotare Lane. At iVERwill encounter WA a variety of sculptures.of them Look excavated carefully locally,Directions: to find and a traditionally builtWhen meeting Akaroa’s famous French settlers arrived plantedin 1840, trees all overOTHER Banks BROCHURES Peninsula AVAILABLE IN THIS including SERIESPurchase hisof this own brochure helps to fund the work of the Trust. M R planted by the local community in a project to restore ead about the Trust at the junction with Kingfisher Lane take the steps on the left niu the wily crocodileis about lurking 3 inhours. the housebush on and the pataka lower (food slopes. store). Complementing Follow thetheir route Ma party 4included from a the number of Germans. Due to the Akaroa Village Walks r just above it. Various tracks connect the village and the wharf E collection is an extensiveDiamond Colonial Harbour collection, alsoWharf containing to Charteris the river bank. They provide an example of the type of www.roddonaldtrust.co.nz Getting to Diamond Harbour into a bush reserve and turn downhill to reach a gravel track atill The giraffes and crocodile were made in Zimbabwe from shortagedrive of there flat land in Akaroa, the Germansarboretum. settled in this On his deathAkaroa Harbour he left and Baysthe property in trust for y M many treasures. The informal atmosphere of the Museum, environmental projects being carried out by groups across the bottom. Turn right and then left on the1 sealed roadBA to the Enjoy a short stroll atrecycled the historic oil drums. The magnificent rhino on the ridge is bay instead, at first all living in a large V hut on the flats and there are several car parking areas. ins kains with many littleBay historic Yacht buildings club, locatedokains andaround beach. onto a central Marine banks Peninsula.eventual use as a rpublicIES park. waterfront. Here you will find toilets, TakamatuakA jetty, and a lovelyvillage of Okains Bayconstructed alongsideo a of agricultural parts by Chris Meder of Dunedin. oppositea walkthe beach. They would walk to Akaroa on what is O grassy area, make it an ideal place to introduce children to Part funded by the festival, your whole stay including overnightbeautiful river. Take the Bayvieway Road until you seeDrive. thefood, CarryAndersons along RoadMarinenow junction. known Drive as pastOld French - ori Road. name Theinstead. bay became known For more information on spot for a swim or a picnic. there: b the history of the area and will delight adults alike. banks Peninsula walks stateFarm Highway animalsokains 75, or as German Bay and kept this name until TheWWI,r whenESpark AVAILABLE it is now IN THIS run SE bywww.bpwalks.co.nz a local charitable Trust and features Getting Cross Marine Drive carefully at the white bridge just before CHU see To return to Akaroa, follow the road around the bay and then turn oad from From the rhino paddock onwards you will see the equally reverted back to its Ma r Bro alks onto the verge. Turn left on Morgans Road and enter the Akaroa verge on the southern side sforummit about 200m, taking care when You can sense Orton Bradley’s love for trees as soon as HARBOUR directions:b ridge to road on the other side. Turn Holiday Park. Follow the Holiday Park road down to a grassy area river COASTAL AND VILLAGE at the bottom and then take the signpostedMillenium walking track back to you must walk on the road to cross a little stream. Turn up the you enter the park up an avenue of giant eucalyptus trees. through the gate, along a short boardwalk and then over the Akaroa, arriving opposite the car park where you started. Information Centres road and follow it toOrton the road Bradleybridge. Here driveway you and you will arrive at the park. There The cluster of historic buildings at the end of the avenue, Milleniumriver bridge to reach left on is an entrance fee of $5 per adult, $1 per child include the oldest stone cottage in Canterbury. This has LOOP WALKS will find the entrance tor oad.Victoria Park and a lovely picnic spot bay Soak up sun and views like a local on these lovely loops by the river.o kainsFrom here make your way back to your car along been restored after the devastating earthquakes and Ferry information the quiet houses the park office and local historic museum. Pick up The ferry between Lyttelton to and Diamond Harbour takes about Upward for a loop return tramp to a map at the office to discover the parks walking tracks and Launching at8 minutes andthe runs frequently from early morning until late in the Diamond Harbour via the tops many attractions. Please help us look after Diamond Harbour evening. Visit www.blackcat.co.nz for the ferry timetable an prices. Two tramping tracks connect Orton Bradley Park to Te Ara Nearby you will find farm buildings with displays and the and its beautiful environment If you take a bus to Lyttelton first say you are going to Diamond Lyttelton Harbour Pa-taka, enabling you to walk back to Diamond Harbour via the summit via the summit ridgeline of Mt Herbert. Both charming cottage with its café and sheltered garden. Public Toilet locations: Harbour on the ferry and ask for three zones (or use your Metro Card) and your fare will be cheaper overall. involve a 900m climb depending which route you take, Please ensure you pay your small entrance fee as this helps Community Hall; On the SpotStoddart shop; Point Diamond Domain Harbour car park; beach; under will take between 6 to 9 hours. Mt Herbert Walkway is the fund the private park, or join Friends of Orton Bradley Park Purau beach shorter, and possible if you start from Orton Bradley Park in end of the FestivalPlaces to purchase food and drink for repeat free entry. Rubbish: 20 Oxford Street Lyttelton Bins generally not provided. Carry all rubbish out. Diamond Harbour village centre has two cafes Preserved and the morning having camped overnight. The campground is Check after picnicking for litter, and pick up any left by others. open from Christmas until the end of January. For a longer Dark Star. The only shop is “On the Spot” on Marine Drive at Dogs: walk, take Faulkner track and stay overnight at Packhorse Respect the dog regulations applying to your chosen Ranui Crescent selling basic groceries, sandwiches, pies and

Hut fees per night walk, keep dogs under strict control at all times and remove all Hut. It takes 3 hours from Orton Bradley coffee. Adult Steve Pearce Drawing of Orton Bradley (18+ years) Youth Sign of the dog faeces. (11–17 Pack Child/infant Public transport horse Hut year Park entrance to Packhorse$15.00 $7.50 s) (0–10Hut, years) Catch and p then Camping at Sign and ublic bus #28 from central Christchurch to Lyttelton, Calling all keen photographers of the Pack then the ferry to Diamond Harbour. Bus and ferr co-ordinator and goat eradicationtimetables are available on www.metroinfo.co.nz. trial. $5.00 Free Park buidlings Hut horse (basic hu $2.50 Akaroa Shuttle and Akaroa French Connection provide Staying overnight Rod Don tic t services bet a ket) (basic hut Free ld Hut $15.00 $7.50 $7.50 pick up at Hilltopween ChristchurchTavern on request. and Akaroa, If you bookand can to catch stop or Mountain Bikes: Make sure you display proof of your bookinticket) about 6 to walk to Diamond Harbour. y the bus at the end of your walk at Hillt – a NEW brochure bu Te Ara nks. them know to call at the Tavern. Be there 15 min after the bus Camping is permitted only by Sign of the Packhorse Hut. departure time fro You need to pre-purchase camping tickets g next to you • For op, make sure you let Pātaka Mountain Bikes are not permitted on off-road container Akaroa Shuttlem Akaroa. book via www.akaroashuttle.co.nz or Two tramping tracks carry on up the There are several bed and breakfasts in Diamond Harbour, you booking for next camping to the (it’shut for‘first the in, ticket best stubs.served’). There is n r ring 0800 500 929. tracks described in this brochure • For Akaroa French Connection book via (Summit Walkway) Mountain biking on Te Ara Pātaka – there is a marked www.akaroabus.co For more informationOnly s on Te AraIt is an excellentPa 2-day trip using public transport starting Banks Peninsula ome tracks are open to mountain biking. From Gebbies Pass, mountain bikes are permitted only a o pre- at Diamond Harbour jetty,.nz or staying ring 0800 over 800 57 can camp at Orton Bradley Park in summer (campervans year as Sign of the Packhorse Hut (return t Littie River Hut, and catching a shuttle from Hilltop Tavern back to flanks of Mt Bradley from the park and Port Levy saddle east the track is open for mountain biking, Christchurch. 5. except through Montgomery P night at Rod Donald Fires: to use the alternative exit route via Pettigrews Road. The tracks, obtain the Te Arahe samePa way). From short track d s far Further information Extremely high fire risk absolutely no fires are to be lit ark Scenic Reserve. Bikes need - round) or tramp to Packhorse Hut as part of a multi-day walk. – either leaveown them to at Rod the Donald top, or Hutbe prepared is not suitable to push fo them up • Conta connect it to Te Ara P and down the hut track. ct DOC taka about Te Ara Pātaka.Christchurch Visitor Centre for all enquiries - • See the Rod Donald Banks Penin anywhere on walks, including billy boiling. from Department of Conservationr bikes more information or a all www. takaroddonaldtrust.co.nz brochure • Visit www.bpwalks. bout the Trust.sula Trust website for Peninsula’. taka, Banks Peninsula walks. ā co.nz for informati Cover Information Centres on Banks Peninsula.: Remnant tōtara ma on on all Banks of Wa ipuna Saddle. Photo: A Keep to public routes: ke th e distinctive landscape Published by: ndrew S Depart mythe Mahaanument of Conservation PO Bo i/Sockburn offi x 11089 Sock b ce urn 8 Sign New Zealand4 43, Christchurch and do not enter private property. of the Pack Please keep to the routes described Novem horse Hut. Photo ber 2016 Editing and : DOC Publishing T design: eam, D for Diamond T ext and im OC National Offi Rod Don ages ald Ba (unl ce Railway Station, Main Street Little River ess othe nks P rwise eninsul cre a Trus dite d): T We are always looking for great photos of the festival to celebrate it and promote it. If yout his p are a pa ublic per ation renewasource is prod d fr uced ble and om w usin lega ell-managed,g lly lo gged WALKS fore sts. 1731 0

R1 EXPLORE STODDART POINT Steve drawing of the mother and child Brochure produced in conjunction with Lyttelton Information statue to fit here Centre and Diamond Harbour Community Association. PURAU LOOPS Purchase of this brochure helps to fund the work of the Trust. event featuring local guides from keen photographer and are happy to share some of your photos (especially shots with people in Harbour Read about the Trust at PETE’S TRACK www.roddonaldtrust.co.nz OTHER BROCHURES AVAILABLE IN THIS SERIES CLIFF TRACK TO CHARTERIS BAY Akaroa i-Site Experienced guides for all walks Akaroa Village Walks Akaroa Harbour and Bays ONWARD TO ORTON BRADLEY them) please email [email protected] Akaroa Country Walks For more information on Banks Peninsula walks PRIN TE see www.bpwalks.co.nz D ON RE CYC LE D/ FS C C ERT IFIED P 74a Rue Lavaud APER Please be aware that photographs taken during the Walking Festival may be used for promotional purposes. Printed September 2017 Town, rural and wilderness walks “Many thanks to Hunting and Walks all over Banks Peninsula Fishing for assisting with first aid over 20 organisations equipment for the festival.” Thanks to our sponsors The happiest garden on earth LA ROCHELLE Panama Reserve extended by 100ha with Special walks for children, families, Magical mosaic sculpture garden Garden of sketchers, historians and botanists Open Daily National BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL 12-5pm from 26 Dec – end April Significance 12 Book at www.eventfinda.co.nz Summer garden Café 2-4pm from 1 May – end Oct Akaroa, New Zealand search Banks Peninsula Walking Festival 2017 Walks for all ages and fitness levels 12-4 pm from 1 Nov – 24 Dec www.larochellemotel.co.nz family camping. www.thegiantshouse.co.nz 68 Rue Balguerie, Akaroa 0800 452 762 We have 13 Saddle Hill Reserve | Puaitahi Reserve developed

protecting 145ha of snow tussock and rocky information outcrop with full public access. panels JOSEF LANGER TRUST 14 Purple Peak Curry Reserve protecting 190ha old growth and regenerating forest in Akaroa water catchment. Private Land Owners 15 Funding grant to Banks Peninsula Conservation We have supported key book publications Trust to support their leading biodiversity recovery

BANKS PENINSULA Walking Festival 2019

Goat eradication pilot

5 PILLAR ACCESS | WĀHI URU leadership for improved public walking and biking access GOAL 4 through implementing the CCC Public Open Space Strategy

2020-2030 1 Unformed legal roads GOAL 3 are valued and effective as a delivery tool for The Head to Head walking and biking Walkway connecting Godley Head to Adderley GOAL 2 Head is completed as a continuous and principally coastal pathway around Te Ara Pataka¯ is Lyttelton Harbour. nationally recognised as a walking route from Christchurch to Akaroa with a network of connections

GOAL 1

A network of well managed walking and biking trails with long term secure public access that provide free walking and connect major communities OUR GOALS FUTURE 6 PILLAR BIODIVERSITY | RERENGA RAUROPI support for enhancing biodiversity through implementing the CCC Biodiversity Strategy

2020-2030 2

GOAL 2

Active support for Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust’s Ecological Vision goals to protect all old-growth forest OAL 3 GOAL 1 remnants of more than 1ha, G examples of all rare Increase protection ecosystems and four indigenous Pest Free Banks Peninsula for areas with high forest areas of more than group is supported in biodiversity value in 1000ha each. its work toward Banks conjunction with public Peninsula being effectively walking/cycling access; free of pest animals purchasing land if necessary GOAL 4

Address the Climate and Ecological Emergency through encouraging native biodiversity to regenerate on a landscape scale, where possible assisted by its income from carbon sequestration

7 PILLAR KNOWLEDGE | MĀTAURANGA promotion of knowledge

2020-2030 3

GOAL 4

The Trust promotes GOAL 3 information about the biodiversity, culture, Develop methods to heritage and geology transfer knowledge of Banks Peninsula and GOAL 2 through events, on-line its potential for carbon information channels sequestration. The Trust regularly and support for a Banks AL publishes and updates Peninsula Geopark. GO 1 material on the walking Trails are used to and biking trails and educate people and works with other connect them to the agencies to enhance natural environment their publications. and mātauranga Maori with the aim of building environmental guardians. OUR GOALS FUTURE 8 GOAL 1 PILLAR PARTNERSHIP | MAHI TAHI partnership with others to achieve common goals We work in partnership with others to achieve

2020-2030 4 greater outcomes than we could individually. GOAL 2

Relationships with key stakeholders are formalised with appropriate agreements and delivering as agreed

GOAL 3

Ngai Tahu’s role as kaitiaki is acknowledged and supported through productive partnerships with Papatipu Rūnanga on Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū

GOAL 4

A mutually supportive partnership with Christchurch City Council recognising the Trust as an effective delivery vessel

9 Striding Forward 2020-2030

OUR GOALS ACHIEVE COUNCIL GOALS

LONG TERM PLAN TARGETS SUPPORTING BIODIVERSITY We’re helping the Council to achieve THROUGH its Long Term Plan targets for Parks and Tracks to keep pace with population PARTNERSHIP growth. The Ecological Vision now provides strategic direction for a collaborative IMPLEMENTING THE PUBLIC approach across OPEN SPACE STRATEGY. agencies including Council.

10 MAPPING OUR FUTURE

1 Achieved by 2019 – Recreation Routes now in place shown in blue and new reserves created or augmented with assistance from the Trust in green.

Map extracted from Christchurch City Council Public Open Space Strategy 2010-2040 We are achieving this over 3 stages.

The Trust is working to achieve the Public Open Space recreational route concept through securing legal public access on existing tracks, improved marking and signage, and negotiating access for new tracks. 2 Aspiration for 2020-2030 – Recreation route goals shown in red and new reserves in green. 3 Aspiration for 2030-40 – Complete recreation routes around outer coast, inner Akaroa Harbour and remaining connections.

11 Next Steps • Trust’s capital remaining is likely to be used by 2021 on major projects in progress.

• We seek to extend the life of the CCO through discussion with the Council .

• We would like to establish certainty through agreed goals and funding.

Rear: Mike Flaws, Bob Webster, Steffan Kraberger, David Brailsford, Jan Cook. Front: Maureen McCloy, Paul McNoe, Carol Jensen, Cynthia Roberts, Belinda Mortlock, Simon Mortlock, Bryan Storey, Suky Thompson, Brent Martin, Richard Suggate.