Kiwi's trusty summer footwear - the jandal - is adding an extra dose of colourful ingenuity to Mauao with a pop-up fence of the rubber footwear appearing on the landmark's base track.

The fence, started before Christmas near the stone steps on the southern side of Mauao, currently has about 24 cable tied jandals of all shapes and sizes.

Tauranga City Council's Mauao park ranger Mark Ray with Tuahine Mere and Oceania Tilpera as they put a pair of Oceania's jandals on the Mauao base track jandal fence. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

Tauranga City Council's Mauao park ranger Mark Ray is unaware of how it began but is enjoying its presence, and thinks it is 'something unique” and creative for the 3.4km track.

'Maybe over the Christmas period someone has just found some jandals and thought they would put them on the fence and then the owner will retrieve them, and someone has thought ‘oh that's a good idea' and added to it,” says Mark.

'It put a smile on my face when I first saw it.”

Two young girls - Oceania Tilpera, 8, from Tauranga and Te Puke's Tuahine Mere, 9, - made the trip to Mauao especially to add to the fence after it caught their eye.

Oceania is donating her jandals to the fence as she does not want them anymore – but only after getting the all clear from her mother.

'We came to the beach today and my mum said I could put them on the fence because they are too big for me,” says Oceania.

'It looks pretty cool and because some of them are people's missing jandals.”

Mark says as no one is put out by the fence's appearance it is set to stay in the coming months, free for people to add to.

'It's quite entertaining and it will stay there for a while before it gets like wallpaper and no one pays any attention to it and I take it down in winter,” says Mark.

'I saw a jandal around the other side of the base track and I left it there because I thought no doubt it will make its way around to the fence.”