Hanging out, weeding for maderia

On Fridays two lucky people usually go maderia weeding. Maderia is a very impressive plant, it reproduces from leaves or tubers so when we weed we have to collect everything, a little difficult when it likes to hang out on cliff tops and the tubers are often feet under ground, and the cliffs are a little crumbly! But it makes for great weeding days! We use a little metal picker tool to remove all the soil around the tuber, which makes me feel like exactly like an archaeologist (we have found heaps of stuff up there, mostly bones of rats and birds!), we bag the vines and tubers and these later get incinerated. The vines in the pictures below are small but if given a chance they climb up trees.



The maderia is confined to a small plot on the cliffs near Fishing Rock, access is by rope as it is a little steep in places and there is a bit of a drop below into the sea, but the views are super, you can see a corner of the Meyer Islands behind me in the picture below.