Getting out of Palmy

Seeing as though my spraying was delayed yesterday, I decided it would be a good opportunity to get out of Plamy! I thought a trip over the hill to Mt Bruce would be a good option, especially as they've recently redeveloped their visitor centre...

Cool clouds as I was driving over - stormy over the Wairarapa, sunny over the Manawatu


So here is some of the new visitors centre - they've got a video which plays across a whole wall, showing what the forest used to be like and how it changed. you obviously don't get the full impression watching a video of the video... but it was pretty cool watching it right in front of you!

Then to outside: I hung out with a Kokako for a while. VERY cool birds and this one was pretty friendly too :)

I'm glad I got to see one this time cause I didn't last time I was there...
Here's a video of him - unfortunately the only impressive calls he made he did just after I arrived and before I started recording! If you don't know they normally sound like this!