The pohutukawa are in flower, the dotterel chicks are hatching and our village is about to fill up with bach visitors and campers!

Here are a few important dates for your diary:

The Opoutere Regatta  –  Saturday December 29 2pm

Opoutere’s annual regatta – with swimming and kayak races for young and old.

Start time is 2pm and there will be prize giving and a bbq across the road in the Michael King Reserve. (Bring $$ for the bbq!)

Everyone is welcome.

Opoutere Ratepayers & Residents Association AGM  –  Wednesday January 2nd 9.30am

Come along to see what the association has been working on this year and make sure that your subs are up to date so you can vote (an agenda will be posted on the bus shelter)! You can also join the association if you are not already a member.

The meeting will be held in the Opoutere School hall.

Dotterel Watch  –  low tides between Xmas and early NY 2019

Please sign up for a shift on the Wharekawa Spit at low tide to help protect the dotterel’s access to food at low tide. See the bus shelter for the roster.

Summer Holiday Working Bees 

Ginger Clean-up (no loud machines) December 22 9-11am: We are taking care of little ginger seedlings that have sprung up since our last major working bee in the forest. Walk through the forest towards the yellow bench beach entrance, look for the orange cones and follow that forest trail for a couple of hundred meters  – you can’t miss us.

PROVISIONAL DATES: Thursday December 27 + Monday December 31st