Monday, 14 December 2009
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Christmas hits the Camper or...
... camp hits Christmas?
Well, we know we wont win any awards with this, but we tried to bring a little festive cheer to the camper the other evening.
If anyone wants to follow our lead, first start with some cord that you find lying on the ground, throw in some fur cones and some pine twigs, hang across the rear window and hey presto, you have a festive camper, well, 3 actually.
Strangely, my hayfever seemed to return at the same time as the decorations, so 12th night came a little early.
P..p..p..pick up a penguin...
I managed to fulfil a long term desire the other day, to see penguins in their natural habitat. Whilst at Oamaru, I managed to delay bar opening time a little to take a drive to nearby Bushy Beach. A scenic spot in it's own right, but it's also a beach that the rare yellow eyed penguins use as their home. There's no guarantee that they'll appear and at the most, people had been spotting between 2-4 over a typical 2 hour period, so hopes weren't that high, but after about 10 minutes of waiting, 1 appeared from the bushes and slowly waddled to the water.. at the same time another was returning with his catch further down the beach. Then another from the same nest, initally very hesitant to waddle anywhere, eventually making it to the sea, was knocked over by a wave, then waddled back home! You might have to zoom in on this pic, but here's one of the stars of the show.
It's magic..
On our way up the coast from Dunedin, we stopped off at the rather peculier Moeraki boulders.
The boulders lie partially submerged in the sandy beach, but were originally part of the mudstone cliffs behind, created around a central core of carbonate of lime crystals that attracted minerals from their surroundings, a process that started 60 million years ago. Ok, I copied that right out of the guide book... between you and me, they are cool spherical rocks scattered over the beach. Apparently they also have magical powers.. which must be true, cos as you can see, I was able to levitate next to one of them.
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