These were some photos we took as we took our Anniversary Holiday in Rotorua
this past weekend. For all you fishing people, we hope you can see the
size of these Trout, these are 'captive' but mostly fish like this you can see
in most of our streams and rivers in the central north island. The
highlight as to be the final photo. We witnessed a hatching of a Kiwi as
we took in the encounter of viewing Kiwi. Ourselves, and four spanish
tourists saw this happen right before our eyes as the little guy took about
10-15 minutes to come right out of his egg. We went back on Sunday morning
and took another look at him (or her). He/she will be two months old
before they can conduct DNA testing to determine his gender.
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These are brown and rainbow trout at Rainbow Springs, Rotorua. |
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More of the trout at rainbow springs, Rotorua. |
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This guy was in a stream, can you get his size? |
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From the smaller babies pool. Mix of rainbow, brown and blue. |
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We could feed these little guys |
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A funky coloured bird we saw. Cant remember what this one was called. |
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These guys are Kea birds. New Zealands native parrot. Destructive birds. |
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This is the Paradise Duck, read the sign next photo |
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Sunny standing next to a representation of an extinct bird. The Moa |
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The Yellow line represents the base of a tree we have here in New Zealand, called the Kauri |
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New Zealands prehistoric dinosaur. The Tuatara |
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This is our Kiwi. I snuck this photo off the video screen. We named him Kaitiaki (which means guardian.) |
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This was a very rare event. Kiwi hardly ever hatch in the day as they are nocternal. |
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