Tamatea Adventure: 6th-10th June 2025

Another successful Tamatea Adventure with a boat full of keen volunteers and paying clients. Servicing and maintaining the trapping & camera network on Mamaku/ Indian Island. Run out the tracking cards on day one, then deployed the team over the next few days to rebait all the coastal DOC 200 traps and replenish the network of Goodnature A24 traps. Cameras had their SD cards collected and batteries swapped out.

Highlights

 - 0% tracking on Mamaku/Indian Island
- 10 cameras with Kiwi footage day & night!
- Some Stoat detection...one Stoat caught 
- One deer sighted
- Kakariki heard in most parts of the island
- Kiwi seen in daytime on Long Island

Volunteers

Darren Peters 
Gavin Sinclair 
Lindsay Wilson 
Jordan Van der Wielen
Rebekah Amos 
Brett Horwell
Ryan Kuggeleijn

Make a Difference (MAD) Volunteers

Ed Bright 

Tamatea Adventurers 

Briar Hayes
Todd Hayes
Nigel Swin