Today is now Sunday evening...I finally have my baggage, I received it yesterday afternoon. it feels great to have it all with me now. but I feel I have too much stuff.
Yesterday Joy and I went to the Waitomo Caves, which is a limestone cave that houses these larva which glow in the dark.. the glow comes from their excrement. It was a very long bus ride and as usual I got pretty sick.
Today I went over to Devonport and met up with Joy and her family and we took a trip up to Tiritiri Matangi. An island sanctuary that was flattened in the 1890s for farming and then was reforested by volunteers. they have even introduced new species of trees and birds to the area including the kiwi (I didnt see any as they only come out at night), fantail, tui, saddleback, red-crowned parakeet, whitehead, stitchbird, bellbird, and a flightless bird, the Takahe, which at one time they thought was extinct but was rediscovered only 50 years ago. Yes family I am getting all of my nerdy stuff in even though I am thousands of kilometres away from you. I know you thought I just came here to shop and party...just joking.
Tomorrow, hopefully Joy is able to get her car so that we can go up to her place at whangamata.
Hope all is well, I hear the Coq is closed, and no I am not sorry at all that I got a little sunburnt today... lots of love
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