@geekmomprojects Wow! Lovely pics. And I'm envious.

@robincapper Just read your blog post. It brought back a lot of memories for me. The Tauranga Bay restaurant was one of our favourite haunts. And I remember the Cape Foulwind walk well. After a spell of bad weather I got cabin fever, so decided to take that walk, despite the rain. While on the trail, I suddenly felt my hair (I had some then) standing up and instinctively dropped to the ground in a low spot, just before a blinding flash of lightning. One of my closer calls!

@mnf Weka will eat almost anything! They have terrible table manners

@robincapper Weka are very cheeky! I used to live in the country just out of Westport and we had to put up kiddie-barriers at our doors to stop them wandering through the house.
And yes, I took the test at theothernessinstitute.com and the definition fit me perfectly. I always knew I was "different", but it was quite a revelation to know exactly how. I now understand why a lot of others don't see the world the way I do. I'm currently reading the book "The Gift of Not Belonging", which is very interesting. I can relate to so much of it.

@sohkamyung @joncounts Yes. Unfortunately human food is not good for kea, so please don't feed them. Weka seem to be able to eat anything... and they will!

@cameraobscura A couple of weeks ago I was servicing a trap line in the Park. There's a point where I leave my pack at a junction to service a couple of little spur lines. When I returned, my pack had been unzipped and my raincoat dragged part-way out. I stuffed the jacket back in and went on my way. It was only when I went to eat my lunch that I discovered one of the two bags containing it had vanished!

FYI, this is Appletree Bay, in the Abel Tasman National Park. Come and check it out.
It's a 1h30m walk from the trail-head. My wife and I just walked in for morning tea. Back at the cafe at the trail-head for lunch.

This is the sort of thing I have to put up with...
Note the weka under the table. For non-New Zealand readers, it's a flightless bird indigenous to Aotearoa / New Zealand. They are incorrigible thieves, especially of food or brightly-coloured items. They are able to unzip bags to get at treasures.
#aotearoa #nature #life