This blog will describe the tracks walked, their difficulty level, distance walked, time taken, facilities available, and will include some photos from the walks. Many of the walks also have a description on the Department of Conservation web site, and links to these and other relevant sites will be posted.
The walks were all done by the author, who has led a mainly sedentary working life, while well within the ‘Super Gold Card’ age range (> 65) , so this should be taken into account when comparing timings. Also times are increasing as arthritic knees start interfering, mainly on uneven downhill slopes.
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Hi there – as an avid photographer looking to capture some new places around the Waikato I stumbled upon your blog while looking for some info on Pukemokemoke – wow I’m seriously impressed with the quality of the information on your site. Particularly as I have two boys (aged 7 and 10) and I’m always interested in knowing the difficulty of the walks, terrain and views we might get along the way. I have subscribed to your site and am looking forward to finding some more gems that we haven’t walked yet – so thank you for all your information
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Many thanks, Meghan. Good to know that the information is appreciated. Some great photos on your site, and great that all the family can get involved. Well done.
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Just came across your blog, while looking for a particular walk, & it’s fantastic! There is an amazing amount of detail & beautiful photos not found on other sites. Thanks 🙂
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Many thanks, Karyn. Always good to hear when someone finds it useful. And if you, or anyone else, knows of suitable walks within about 2 hours drive of Tauranga that haven’t been covered yet please let me know. Thanks.
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Thanks a lot for the fantastic resource!!! Using your site we found at least 2 new waterfalls we never know exist 🙂
Not sure if you know, but we added your blog to useful links on our site: http://waterfalls.co.nz/useful-links
Cheers,
New Zealand Waterfalls
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Thank you. I had noticed some referrals from your site coming through, and did look at your site for inspiration some time ago. I’ve upgraded my subscription to WordPress so the site is now also found at motowalknz.com. It also allows for videos to be added, which I hope to do one day.
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Way to go – great information on so many tracks. Very well thought of with great detail.
All the best with your walks!
Ant
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Many thanks, Ant. I will try to keep going, but arthritic knees are setting some limits on steeper and rougher tracks.
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Lovely to chat to you today on Mount Maunganui! I hope we can go for a walk one day soon, i could take some drone pix/vids for your site 🙂 Cheers, Ciska (@nz_adventures)
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A pleasure to meet and talk to you, Ciska. A great site you’ve got at http://www.nz-adventures.com with all those videos and photos from around the country. Look forward to meeting up again some time. Cheers.
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I’m really impressed with the content you’ve added in this blog – this is a really valuable source of information for learning the walks are like and whether they’re suitable for a range of users.
I’m keen to know if you’d be open to us using some of this content to let more people know what to expect on these trails?
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Thank you very much for the comments. I started the blog because I had difficulty finding practical information about some of the walks. Now that I can no longer do the more difficult walks, and partly due to the dearth of feedback from the many daily visitors, I’m considering closing the site when the current subscription ends. However in the meantime you are welcome to use the content, with suitable attribution, of course. If I don’t renew the motowalknz.com domain most of the information should continue to be available at motowalknz.wordpress.com but with possibly totally unrelated ads that I can’t control.
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Thanks for that. I can easily credit any photos used. What would you like me to use? nzartig? motowalknz? Cheers.
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If you credit it to motowalknz.wordpress.com it should also be valid in the future. Thanks. Your site looks like a great information resource with much larger coverage of the country.
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