We drove norther towards Trounson forests, famous for their big Kauri trees and being one of the first mainland island...
Mainland island means that even not being an island (although New Zealand is an island), they have been using extensive predator control in the area, so big that the native birdlife has almost been restored to that of completely predator free islands.
That means, they have Kiwi birds there! And guess who was lucky enough to see one? We walked at around 8pm, provided with poweful headlamps with red light filters, after half an hour we stopped in the track and listened quietly. I saw on our right hand side a Kiwi in the bush, picking food with its beak. Diffcult to see but Daniela also managed to see it. After about half a minute he was gone, but we were really happy! We have just seen one in the wilderness, without doing any night guided walk or anything like that. Really cool!
Next day we visited the biggest and oldest Kauri tree living in New Zealand. Older than 2000 years and above 50 meter high! We're such a fly shit...
Tomorrow more, my mobile is running out of juice. The display needs a lot of power to shine above the beach strong sun.
Cheers.
Jm
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