Today I did one last round of samples for my thesis before I head to the UK. It was such a nice day - its hard to believe that in under a week I'll be 'enjoying' a British autumn... Joy...
On the way north to Dannevirke I stopped off a Mount Bruce for a bit. It's a very cool place with lots of bush protected by a predator proof fence and they also have breeding programs for lots of really endangered birds.
I heard the most vocal Kaka in the world (very possible!), and got a video of them just for YOU!
Just slightly north of Mt Bruce is a place very close to the hearts of many Kiwi's, can you see it??!
After that I headed up and got my first samples, all went well, and it didn't rain this time which is nice! Lots of lovely NZ landscape up there;
It does look nice, but it's still hard to think of it as anything other than rape and pillage of forest to grow invasive pasture grasses for dairy cows to eat... Ignorance was bliss!Next, here's a time lapse of part of the trip - I left the sound in - can you guess what the music is??!
Then on to Pukepuke, Fenn had a good run around as we walked in to the site, but she looked a bit bored just waiting for me to take my samples
So she went on a MISSION!
Kapiti looked as amazing as ever on the way home too which was nice - look forward to seeing it again in a month!
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