This article was first published in the Tararua Tramper Volume 92, no 11, December 2020
Spicer Valley E
4 November 2020
Starting from the Spicer Valley car park, we did a circuit of Spicer Botanical Park - often bypassed. We then ascended the Te Ara Tai Tonga Track to the wind farm access road, joining the track through the Spicer Forest to climb up to the farm, and took the Seven Pines Track back to the car park. A small group of greenhood orchids (good specimens) was seen toward the end of the trip.
- Party members
- Anne and Hadley Bond (leader and scribe), Daphne Dashfield, Margaret Foden, Lois Hope, Jeanette Martin, Peter Nixon, Barbara Ogilvie, Jennifer Roberts.