Bush Society volunteers’ fitness has improved after a big season last year, maintaining the 4.7km track network in Centennial Park, so our community can enjoy walking in this special place. The secret to lasting tracks is good drainage, including pipes, channels, humps on slopes to move water off tracks and moving tracks out of flood plains. Our most ambitious project this winter was raising a 30m section of the upper Kohekohe Track by 300mm, wheel-barrowing hard fill to the site and consuming over 200 volunteer hours. We even had a group of St Kentigern students helping us move fill over four weekends! We also built a new 40m deviation on the Kohekohe Track to avoid a flood plain, installed a 6m x 375mm diameter pipe on the upper Aberdeen Track to remediate a badly eroding stormwater outfall, installed four handrails on the steps from the Pine Tree Carpark, replaced the rotting seat and installed a new step on the Aberdeen Track, did a major upgrade on the Sandford Street steps and more. Numerous trailer loads of fill and GAP20 metal have been moved about. We are now progressively fixing drainage and remetalling tracks where needed. Lots of fun and lighthearted banter keeps us going, as well as discussions about swales, bunds and sock drains, but the best thing about this work is the coffee and wonderful cake at our 10:30 am compulsory breaks! New working bee volunteers are always very welcome.
Campbells Bay Urban Sanctuary 