1. Concerts for Conservation
(Projects & Events/Projects)

  Live at the Islands is run by a team of event professionals who are combining their passion for conservation and music to create one hell of a kiwi summer experience Mark your 2011 calendar now ...

2. Memorials on Monument
(Heritage/European Settlement)

... is marked by a an engraved granite headstone and edging and covered with white mosic tiles In the summer of 2010, Mt Roskill school children discuss with their teachers what life might have been like ...

3. July 2009
(Get Involved/Volunteer Profiles)

... Claire trades a lazy Sunday at home in Remuera for some hard graft on Motutapu at least once a month. She was there a lot over the summer, mainly tending seedlings. "That's my favourite bit." Marrying ...

4. August 2009
(Get Involved/Volunteer Profiles)

... that flock to the campground during summer to enjoy the beautiful Island. For the first time in many years of island volunteer planting, the Trust organisers had arranged a site which was flat, a short ...

5. October 2009
(Get Involved/Volunteer Profiles)

... and summer to deal with any surviving plants before they flower and there is another crop of pods. The Motutapu Restoration Trust holds a public volunteer day every first, third and fifth Sunday of the ...

6. US Navy Magazines
(Heritage/Military)

... concrete.      They are much easier to spot in summer when their grassed earth camouflage cover dries out and the grass browns off.              ...

7. Auckland Heritage Festival
(Projects & Events/Events)

... you to the island in 12 months time when we will be doing it all again.  For those of you who simply can't wait that long, Fullers will be providing Saturday/Sunday 9.15am Summer sailings from the Ferry Building ...

8. Volunteer on Motutapu
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... fitness) Weed Busting - we control weeds throughout the year esp. summer (medium fitness required) Beach Cleanups - any time of the year Fencing, property repairs, grounds maintenance, wildlife monitoring ...

9. Nursery Diary
(Restoration/Ecological)

... as well as a large shade house. Our nursery is the scene of much volunteer activity particularly during the summer when tiny seedlings are pricked out from seed trays and transferred into root trainers ...

10. Fencing Diary
(Restoration/Ecological)

... 2009 Fencing requirements identified for the summer include the readying of 700 battens removed from old fencing for the Rakino wetland fencing project. Battens removed from the Home Bay road to also ...

11. Weedbusting - What's it about?
(Restoration/Ecological)

... to come along and join this committed team. Our Weedbusters operate all year round, summer and winter, rain or shine.Contractors have been brought in to deal with weeds such as moth plant in Central Gully ...

12. The DUAL2010
(Projects & Events/Events)

... volunteers. If you are one of our regular island restoration volunteers - take a break from the summer nursery and weeding work, enjoy a different volunteering experience on Motutapu. if you've never visited ...

13. Getting There
(Tourism and Recreation/Getting There)

... and timetables from Fullers or phone 09-367 9111 From summer 2009, Fullers commenced scheduled weekend sailings (Saturdays and Sundays) to Motutapu, Home Bay wharf leaving Downtown Auckland at 9.15am ...

14. MOEC
(Tourism and Recreation/Facilities & Activities)

... during summer, weekends and school holidays. We are not affiliated to any religious, ethnic or other group, everyone is welcome! However, please note that all accommodation and use of other facilities ...

15. Volunteer Days
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... 5.30pm (summer) Fullers moved to their winter programme in May 2010. The only weekend sailings calling at Home Bay Motutapu during winter (May - October) coincide with our May- October public volunteer ...

16. Tree Planting - How to Guide
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... survival over the next summer if we get another dry one like 2009/10. So we want to bed the plants in fairly deep. In the second in the series of pics above, our lovely model Maggie is demonstrating how ...

17. Make a Weekend of It !
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... sailings to Home Bay Motutapu until next summer. If you don't have your own boat, the only way to sail to Motutapu is on the Fullers ferry that sails only on our Public Volunteer Days through the winter ...

18. Facilities & Activities
(Tourism and Recreation/Facilities & Activities)

... the summer months on weekends. Click on this link: http://www.fullers.co.nz/tickets-fares/timetables/motutapu.php Information and bookings contact the Department of Conservation Information Centre ...