Anklebiters Go Walking

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ANKLEBITERS GO WALKING Peter Brocklehurst The Mangaone Walkway -1991 Ian Bunckenburg 1991 saw the rediscovery of a neglected but growing role of pack horses. What did the kids do once they got section of our club. Growing in a numerical and physical back to the carpark? Yep, these supposedly wacked sense, that is. Anklebiters!! If you are unaccustomed to anklebiters insisted on running about playing and having the term it refers to young bipeds ranging in height from a ball. 600mm to 1200 mm. They are normally found in the presence of moderately stressed parents, who in this Buncks and Marion started these excursions into the instance are members of the club. For the sheer pleasure outback sometime in 1991. They have proved successful of it they take these young creatures into the wildernesses for those of us who now find it near-impossible to get of Smiths Creek, the Rimutaka Incline, Butterfly Creek, into the bush for any real period of time. They are the Mangaone Walkway, the Five Mile Track and other especially good when you are unable to maintain the pace exotic locations to show them good ole Kiwiland'. of Karin Boswell's day trips because you are accompanied by an anklebiter. You see genus The underlying rationale for these trips is that parents "Anklebiter" has a monumental ability to wander, an find safety in numbers. They would also like to believe insatiable curiosity, and a need to examine in minute that the kids will wear themselves out. detail each fallen leaf and animal dropping. And so it takes anklebiters all day to get anywhere. In reality that theory holds no weight as was demonstrated on a recent trip to Smiths Creek. On the To those who have taken part in these trips, including way out from Smiths Creek there were lots of comments Bunks and Marion's dog Abby, thanks. May there be from the anklebiters of the "How much further?" "I'm many more adventures. The kids love them. dead" variety so some mums and dads had to take on the le c n8