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Wiremu's page HIDDEN LAKES TRIP __** On Wednesday the 2nd June 2010. The seniors of Mauriceville School went on a trip to hidden lakes. Some of the native plants we saw on the day were the red fruited Karamu, Kowhai and Onga Onga. The purpose of the senior’s trip to hidden lakes was to replant some native Kowhai seedlings and collect some native seeds. I learned that the red fruited Karamu berries are able to be eaten by humans and birds. I also learned that each red fruited karamu berry has to seeds inside. During the walk around hidden lakes we replanted approximately 40-50 native Kowhai seedlings. Once all the replanting was done, we stopped at some picnic tables to eat our lunch. After lunch we went on a seed collecting bush walk The native seeds we collected on our bush walk, we are going to take them back to school and grow into seedlings to one day replant them back at hidden lakes. Once we had finished collecting seeds, we started the very difficult journey back to the vehicles. The journey back to the vehicles was difficult because the bush was very thick, it was raining and the ground was very muddy. On the journey back to the vehicles I noticed heaps of other students slip over and get very muddy. I was lucky because I made it back to the vehicles with out slipping over. I really enjoyed the trip to hidden lakes and can’t wait to go back.
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