The Oamaru Harbour area will benefit from projects planned by the Friendly Bay Society, a watchdog group set up last year to preserve the harbour environs.
The society, at its annual meeting during the weekend, is planning to have penguin nesting boxes made for the reserve between Holmes Wharf and Oamaru Creek; is looking at making park benches; wants to plant trees; and is investigating setting up a children's playground.
Spokesman Barry Monks said the projects were aimed at enhancing the harbour area.
Timber had been donated to the society to make penguin nesting boxes to replace some which had been washed out to sea by erosion.
Boxes would also be provided to pupils at Hampden and Kakanui schools so they could place them in their areas.
A lack of seating areas around the harbour would be resolved by the society making park benches.
"We hope to do that in conjunction with Arbor Day, when we will plant some trees," he said.
That tied in with an Arbor Day planting in 1892 on three areas of the land the Waitaki District Council has earmarked for its Forrester Heights subdivisions.
School children planted a dray-load of trees.
Mr Monks said the society was also getting quotes for children's playground equipment, which it wanted to place on the former Christmas carnival land opposite Friendly Bay.
