The plants of the exposed rocky Waitakere coast, including the few islands, are constrained by the salt-laden winds and stormy seas. I shall look at some of these special hardy species, along with some of the seabirds and the influence of mammalian predators.
Ewen Cameron is Curator of Botany at the Auckland Museum, a position he has held for nearly 30 years. His main research interest is collecting and documenting the wild flora (naturalised and indigenous) of northern New Zealand, including the offshore islands. He has also been fortunate to occasionally assist his brother-in-law, Graeme Taylor, monitoring grey-faced petrels at Te Henga.