All notes
Every note so far, newest first. Each one is checked against the sources it links.
- Freshwater lifeLooking after a river you use — Check, Clean, Dry, toileting and campsites, weeds on the banks, and how ordinary river users can help keep track of a river’s health.
- Freshwater lifeNew Zealand’s native freshwater fish — Galaxiids, bullies, eels, lamprey and the fish behind the whitebait catch. Who lives in our rivers, why so many of them need the sea, and why culverts matter.
- Safety & skillsGetting started with packrafting and river kayaking — How river grades work, why a club or course is the right first step, the kit that matters, and the lifejacket rule that now applies to small craft.
- Freshwater lifeWhio: the blue duck of fast rivers — Whio live year-round on fast, clean mountain rivers and nowhere else in the world. Why they need that water, what threatens them, and what to do when you meet a pair.
- RiversReading river flow and rainfall data before a trip — Councils publish live river levels and rainfall for hundreds of sites. Here is how to find them, what a rising hydrograph is telling you, and the traps to avoid.
- Safety & skillsRiver crossing basics for trampers — Most of river safety is deciding not to cross. Here is how to plan for unbridged crossings, read the warning signs, and what the mutual support method looks like.
- RiversHow New Zealand protects a river — Water Conservation Orders, national parks and stewardship land do different jobs. The Mōkihinui River shows how they fit together.