Green Jersey Explorer Tours

06/11/2026

Good news for Remutaka Rail Trail riders! 🚴‍♀️

The Cross Creek upgrade is complete and the track is fully open from today, Saturday 7 November. No more weekday closures or stop/go controls, just more time to enjoy the ride!

Ready to get back out there? We can help with bike hire and shuttles 😊

Read the update here:

The 2km Cross Creek Yards to Cross Creek Carpark upgrade is complete. The section now meets grade 3, and the track is fully open from Saturday 7 November.

02/11/2026

The "Dream Team" on the road again - Hugh Grey toured with us on Rekohu Chatham Island and liked it so much he came back for more! Last weeks 6 day tour was one of our best yet.

02/11/2026

Well - We had an awesome time at Green Jersey last week running a 6 day tour for our old friend Hugh Grey and his team who were joined by Julie and Diane. This one was a bit different because that's what Hugh wanted - starting from Martinborough we biked out to Glendhu Station and then around the coast to their northern boundary with Glenburn Station. The next day was Glendhu to Te Awaite over the waterfall highway on Pahaoa Station. We were welcomed to the Te Awaiti Homestead by Dan Riddiford himself. The next day was tough one - Te Awaiti to Waimeha via Te Oroi, White Rock, Ngapotiki and Cape Palliser - a warm welcome from JP and his crew soon had the team engaged in their Friday local's night. The next day was on to Ocean Beach the then a day of a grand finale from Ocean Beach to Wainuiomata and then a double out and back on the Remutaka Incline Cycleway due to the track closure at Cross Creek. We finished off yesterday with a ride back to town in testing winds from the Haurangi Road end in the middle of the Aorangi Forest Park back to Martinborough. Great folk to tour with and another awesome tour chalked up with Green Jersey!

17/10/2026

We are looking for a few "test customers" to help us with a new product we are developing collaboratively with the Ruamahanga Farm Foundation and Hau Ariki Marae - "Wairarapa Wetland Explore" is a 2 day excursion with a pilot tour scheduled for the weekend of 14th November - for more information see https://wetlandexplore.org.nz/ and to secure a place contact us on [email protected] - if you are willing to participate in a customer focus group at the end of the tour for a couple of hours max you can join the tour at a discounted rate - Families welcome

South Wairarapa Repo, awa and ngāhere explored slowly, together. A two-day conservation journey through the South Wairarapa exploring wetlands, the Ruamāhanga awa and ancient podocarp forests guided by the people restoring them. Highlights include a pōwhiri at Hau Ariki Marae, guided story walks ...

09/10/2026

We love to help conservation in our area. So we are putting on a free bus to help folk get to this one. We totally recommend it as a fun way to make a contribution to help the bittern

Do you know about the plight of the matuku-hūrepo or Australian bittern. These extremely cryptic and rarely seen birds are in the "nationally critical" category - that means they are on life support - all our efforts to control predators in the Wairarapa Moana are mission critical to save them from extinction within the next decade.

Join us for the 2026 Matuku Muster - gather with the Green Jersey bus leaving 16 Kitchener Street Martinborough at 6.30pm on Friday 30th Oct with a back up date (weather) of Sunday 1st November.
RSVP to [email protected]
The team will teach you how to listen for and record matuku-hūrepo while stationed at your assigned post in the Wairarapa Moana

26/09/2026

Well that's good proof that in the right conditions the Kororā will use the house boxes provided in Kawakawa Palliser Bay - now we just have to find some Kororā to actually live in them! 😁

23/09/2026

I have just been to the combined Kahutara & Pirinoa School "Te Reo o te Wai" event which is part of this weeks Wairarapa Music Festival. All I can say is DOUBLE WOW.

At Green Jersey we are so proud to be an enabler of getting our Primary School kids out in the field on ecological expeditions using our bus fleet constructively. We are helping train the next generation of guardians of our landscapes, forests, rivers and moana. And what an awesome event this was - with the children singing and reading reflections from their own work in the field. It is so awesome to be a contributor to the development of a real community spirit here in the South Wairarapa. We cant see these results on a balance sheet but we felt it in our hearts today!

21/09/2026

Our favourite place to stay on our Coastal Cycle Tours 😍

20/09/2026

Anyone with any information about any evidence of kiwi in the Aorangi Ranges since 1840 we would love to hear about it

When did kiwi become extinct in the Aorangi Ranges? That is an interesting question - anyone with any information about modern sightings we would love to hear from you. My Brother in Law Don Clark was certain that he heard kiwi calling at night in the Aorangi Bush near Yeronga Station at Pirinoa in the 1960's. Others say this is not possible.

What we have ascertained so far:
1. A 1862 Hochstetter statement places surviving kiwi in the wooded mountain chains between Cape Palliser and East Cape
2. There is good evidence that weka and huia persisted in the Aorangi Ranges considerably longer than in much of the surrounding Wairarapa area. Greater Wellington records that weka survived particularly well in the surrounding hill country, “particularly the Aorangi Ranges”, although those populations had disappeared by the last decade of the 19th century (1890's)
3. Kiwi bones common in Wairarapa caves
4. There is some evidence linking South Wairarapa kiwi to rowi - a rare branch of the kiwi family - There is one natural population of about 450 rowi (Apteryx rowi) in Ōkārito forest and surrounds in South Westland. Ōkārito was designated as one of the five special Kiwi Sanctuaries in 2000. Rowi can also be found on two predator-free islands in the Marlborough Sounds, following successful translocations of birds.
Attached is a Chat GP pencil drawing of a rowi kiwi