Karori Wildlife Sanctuary

Another large suspension bridge in the park.

A prehistoric looking marsh/swamp

Cat at the lower lake at Karori.

Lower lake at Karori.

Tramping on the Orongorongo trail to the top of Cattle ridge trail and back.

Huge Tree ferns are everywhere and look like something out of jurassic park.

View from the top of Cattle Ridge down to the Orongorongo trail.

Nice streams are pretty common.

These Dr. Seuss type plants grow all over the trees via large vines.

The forest can be very dense and tropical with plant and vines and moss covering everything!

Cat on a suspension bridge! These seem to be on every large trail around here. they can span over 100+ feet and are pretty fun to walk across. They sway and bounce a lot!

Out around the neighborhood.

Cat at Scorching Bay.

There's a Sweet as rope swing down the street. You have to wear a helmet though just in case you fall off! no really we were out on a bike ride and just popped in for a swing.

Here's our strange little car. It's a Mitsubishi RVR! Most people think this car is really big. But it only sit's 4 people. It's got 4 Wheel Drive and looks like a minivan somebody put into a trash compactor and squished a bit.

Sunrise from our bedroom.

Cat and I moved into this house in Karaka Bay on the Miramar peninsula outside Wellington.
We share the house with the owners Marco and Ursala who are a totally awesome couple!
We have been hanging out at the house quite a bit and enjoying it on the weekends! It's on the same street that peeter Jackson lives on and in the picture you can see Barry Osbourne's house to the right ( It's the one with the curved roofline I think). Weird!



The view from the front deck as we dry our clothes. Most people don't have clothes dryer's here and opt to dry them outside!

A really cool neighborhood cat that wondered up onto our deck and right into our bedroom.

we ended up feding it and letting it hang around for a while :)

The Beach right across the road from our house :)

Exploring the Wellington Harbour.

Out in Seatoun someone was parasailing! and catching huge air. This person would probably get about twelve feet in the air and 40 or so feet in distance! Amazing!

There are Penguins here...... They come for the mating season and hang around until their chicks hatch. We haven't seen any yet but we can hear them at night out in the water. They sound kind of liike a crying baby.

I climb tree.

This is what the cops drive here!

The South Island as seen from the airplane as we approached Wellington.

Flying over the wellington harbour.

Feeling triumphant as we arrived in our "Sweet As" Suite at the Duxton Hotel Awesome breakfast's! ( "Sweet As" is kiwi slang for really sweet...you can add "as" to just about anything apparently. ie. "Hungry As" or "Big As" but people might think you just said they have a big ass :)

The view from our room.

Same view at sunrise the next morning.

Wellington, New Zealand

Hello!!!

We arrived about 4 weeks ago. Including lay-overs the total travel time was about 20 hours from San Francisco to L.A. to Auckland to Wellington! The trans-pacific time was a little over 12 hours but we tried to sleep most of the time.

photo: flying over the North Island