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Today is the last day of my holiday and tomorrow work starts. It has been a bit lonely being a lone traveller in Sydney and here in Wellington. However, I have tried to make the most of my time here and have visited a few of the sights. Yesterday was a bank holiday so not much was open in Wellington but I decided that I would take the cable car - which is really a funicular railway, to the botanical gardens and then walk back down. The views up there were terrific although the weather wasn't brilliant. However, it improved considerably on my way down. I did get wet in the morning though - that will teach me to buy the waterproof I need! I also did some geocaching - some of you will already know what that is and others won't so for those of you who don't check it out on www.geocaching.co.uk. I had been tasked with releasing 2 travel bugs to race back to the UK so had to find 2 separate caches on the same day. I started with a list of 7 but only managed 2, I have been unable to find 4 of the others - partly due to them being in very busy areas which makes true searching almost impossible. However, 2 was enough and one of the travel bugs has been picked up already.
Today I took a bus - yup public transport - to the Karori Sanctuary which is just in the suburbs of Wellington. They are trying to preserve the native animals, birds and plants and have enclosed a huge part of the hillside to prevent imported species getting in (well not birds obviously) and to create favourable conditions for a variety of threatened native species. The kiwi is one of these but as it is nocturnal I didn't see any of those. I did see quite a few others though, many of which I could not identify but a few that I could - from the boards they have up round the sanctuary. Unfortunately, as the birds are all flying past at speed for the most part it is not possible to photograph them but I did take a few photos and some video.
Tomorrow is the first day of the secondment so time for work. Guess from now on weekends will be my holiday time and I will be trying to get around as much as possible then.
Today I took a bus - yup public transport - to the Karori Sanctuary which is just in the suburbs of Wellington. They are trying to preserve the native animals, birds and plants and have enclosed a huge part of the hillside to prevent imported species getting in (well not birds obviously) and to create favourable conditions for a variety of threatened native species. The kiwi is one of these but as it is nocturnal I didn't see any of those. I did see quite a few others though, many of which I could not identify but a few that I could - from the boards they have up round the sanctuary. Unfortunately, as the birds are all flying past at speed for the most part it is not possible to photograph them but I did take a few photos and some video.
Tomorrow is the first day of the secondment so time for work. Guess from now on weekends will be my holiday time and I will be trying to get around as much as possible then.
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