Kea, Arthur's Pass, Hokitika
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ickaimpI'm sorry Ysabet. A Kea ate a hole in the red skirt you gave me. ^^;;
We went up to Arthur's Pass and found all these 'Please Do Not Feed the Kea' signs.
Really. Do not feed the Kea.
Kea are like a big parrot, who don't like to fly. They can, for short distances tho.
They're also equipped with heavy long pointy claws and beaks to deal Ice. Yes, Alpine Parrots.
With the Curiosity factor of a Ferret.
If you feed the Kea human food, A: They get really hyper off our fattier foods and B: now don't have to hunt for food.
Which means they have the time and energy to go out and get themselves into trouble.
Which they do.
So Please. Don't Feed the Kea.
They're also attracted to bright objects. One of them got distracted from eating the underside of a car (not kidding) by my skirt and proceeded to chew a hole in it. Photos to follow. (photos will be posted to LJ Pics, once we have the cable to upload them to the 'puter)
It then got bored with my skirt and went to eat the underside of -our- car. ~_~
From Arthur's Pass, we went to Hokitika and saw some romantically glowing pieces of shit.
More commonly known as Glow Worms.
Is very cool, you walk into this grotto (they're also famous for growing in caves) where the Glow Worm Larvae have made little sticky strands that hang down, kinda like icicles. The worms then light these strands up, making spots of glowing pale blue to attract other insects to eat. It looks like a star field. ^___^
Also went walking on the beach there. We've been on the East Coast of NZ, which means it's the Pacific Ocean. The water is all Blues and Teals (the official colours of Air New Zealand), surrounded by these bright Green cliffs and either bright white or black sand. And neat shells.
West Coast, you're now on the Tasman Sea. Which was bottle-green. In Hokitika, you also had darkish brown sand with TONS of drift wood all over it. And not much shell-life.
Was odd.
We went up to Arthur's Pass and found all these 'Please Do Not Feed the Kea' signs.
Really. Do not feed the Kea.
Kea are like a big parrot, who don't like to fly. They can, for short distances tho.
They're also equipped with heavy long pointy claws and beaks to deal Ice. Yes, Alpine Parrots.
With the Curiosity factor of a Ferret.
If you feed the Kea human food, A: They get really hyper off our fattier foods and B: now don't have to hunt for food.
Which means they have the time and energy to go out and get themselves into trouble.
Which they do.
So Please. Don't Feed the Kea.
They're also attracted to bright objects. One of them got distracted from eating the underside of a car (not kidding) by my skirt and proceeded to chew a hole in it. Photos to follow. (photos will be posted to LJ Pics, once we have the cable to upload them to the 'puter)
It then got bored with my skirt and went to eat the underside of -our- car. ~_~
From Arthur's Pass, we went to Hokitika and saw some romantically glowing pieces of shit.
More commonly known as Glow Worms.
Is very cool, you walk into this grotto (they're also famous for growing in caves) where the Glow Worm Larvae have made little sticky strands that hang down, kinda like icicles. The worms then light these strands up, making spots of glowing pale blue to attract other insects to eat. It looks like a star field. ^___^
Also went walking on the beach there. We've been on the East Coast of NZ, which means it's the Pacific Ocean. The water is all Blues and Teals (the official colours of Air New Zealand), surrounded by these bright Green cliffs and either bright white or black sand. And neat shells.
West Coast, you're now on the Tasman Sea. Which was bottle-green. In Hokitika, you also had darkish brown sand with TONS of drift wood all over it. And not much shell-life.
Was odd.
