by Cimino | 25 Mar 2022 | Coastal path, Rivermouth ferry
Seeing coastal path for the trails, great regional park for the...
by Cimino | 9 Jun 2019 | Coastal path, Paths and trails, Rivermouth ferry, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Fourth Thursdays 3rd time lucky after 20 June The clash wasn’t discovered until after 20 June was locked in for the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Taking Shapely town-hall talk. Having cheerfully ceded their second-Wednesdays slot to bpw Warkworth, the town-hall talks have...
by Cimino | 14 May 2019 | Rivermouth ferry
Mahurangi Coastal Path taking shapely Most of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail is already in use, and has been for decades. This, thanks to the entire coastline from Waiwera to the Mahurangi Harbour becoming regional park, by 1973. Within that time, built by park staff and...
by Cimino | 30 Oct 2018 | Mussel action, Rivermouth ferry
Interim river-mouth scow and mussel restoration research At first blush, the roles would appear to be impossibly disparate. One role is as a testbed for a Pūhoi River Mouth reaction ferry. The other is as Mahurangi Action’s all-purpose scow, for everything from...
by Cimino | 20 Mar 2018 | Coastal path, Rivermouth ferry
Exploring a plan-b Pūhoi Rivermouth ferry With a long-term solution calculated to cost $2 million, it is time to consider a plan b. This not to suggest that $2 million is too rich to realise the magnificent potential of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail. It is too much,...
by Cimino | 4 Jan 2018 | Coastal path, Regional parks, Rivermouth ferry, Transport and climate action
Most public transport in Aotearoa is fossil-fuel powered. But that would not excuse the key component of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail, the ferry, being fossil-fuelled. Fortuitously, as described in Minimum Impact 100% River-Powered, a fossil-fuel-free solution is...
