Way markers for letterbox walks

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Apart from removing bramble and guava from the restoration site up green mountain and clearing mountain paths, one of our most recent jobs assisting with the park warden work has been to put in way markers along the path of the letterbox walk Duck Pond as lots of people have been getting lost trying the find the letterbox at the top. 



We joined Sunitha on the Wednesday 18th January in the afternoon where we managed to put in three out of the seven markers that needed to be put along the path. Judging where to put them based on where the most confusing points of the walk were. Once we got to a point where we thought a marker should go we dug a hole deep enough to put the marker posts in and drilled the way points onto the posts before filling in and compacting the ground around the bottom of the post. It was quite hard work carrying all the posts and the equipment but the area where the walk was is now one of my favourite parts of the island – the valley was so pretty, really green with huge rocks that look like ‘sugar lumps’ and lots of eucalyptus trees at the bottom of the valley. 



On Thursday 19th we then walked back up the path with the remaining way markers and I built Cairns in places we didn’t have enough markers for to guide people up to the top, which was a definite highlight for me, collecting up rocks and getting to stack them up and build things with them is definitely something I’m good at 😊. We got a little confused ourselves as to where the path was so had to build some extra cairns and eventually found our way to the top, putting in the last few posts and way markers as we went. When we reached the top, we found the Duck pond letter box and the rubber ducks that live up at the old concrete water tank which still contains water which drops down from the grey trachyte cliffs.

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