Palmerston North, Levin and Kiwis!

We had to go to Palmerston North because of our universal charger blew of just before the Rafting. This "Unipal" Universal Charger replaced the cheap one that was stolen in Rotorua. We got another one, which blew up after one hour. Later I was told that Sony batteries have a chip pin (apart from -,+) which none of the universal chargers have, and may result in overheating. Bad luck...

Anyway, we headed south and found a lonely freedom camping place in which we stayed alone, and for free! Next day I wanted to visit a nice bird park in which Kiwis (the birds) could be seen. We saw the half of one, because it had an egg and was on top of it(must for 2months). But man, this birds are big! It looked like a big hun! What we saw that was even more impressive, were some eels being fed. Those animals are also huge, and they were not captive. They could come directly from the sea.

They had some Tuataras too, which are literally living fossils. These reptiles show almost no evolution for the last 200 million years. They were about 60-80 cm long and really looks like prehistoric crocodiles ...

That night we slept near Levin, right on the beach. I could scare sculls, and Daniela took plenty of pictures from the beautiful dawn. Later at 3am I would get a call from my mum warning me about the quake in Japan. We were maybe some 10m away from the beach so we started the engine and drove in the middle of somewhere, where my offline Google terrain maps showed above the 100m level line.

Next day we read on the net that New Zealand had only water warning,but not any big alert. Anyway is better to be on the safe side, when we were in Thailand in the Ko Phi-Phi island we saw in YouTube what happened there in the tsunami from 2006, so we knew had bad could be...

Next day we were heading to Wellington!

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