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| Devin Checks out the Time in Christchurch |
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| Tupelo learning to skate backwards |
Sadly, we have only a few days left. Our five week journey seems to have gone by so quickly. We started our day with student’s choice - a morning out in Christchurch where the students had time to sightsee/shop, or ice skate, and then tucked into some Hillyers pies for lunch.
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| All manner of birds were brought with early settlers of New Zealand including these Sebastopol geese with crazy feathers. |
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| Not sure why you would pack up and bring a wallaby to NZ, but NZ has trouble with those too. |
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| Bailey feeds a Kea with a broken beak. |
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| Personality of a rock, but Tuatara are soooooo awesome! |
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| The Girls give Poi a go |
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| The Guys give the Haka a go |
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| A Hangi feast |
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| With Devin, our Chief, heading up our table, we enjoyed a four course meal by a warm fireplace. |
We spent the afternoon and evening at Willowbank. Willowbank is a wildlife reserve where we had a chance to see up close both exotic animals that settlers brought and cause problems here in New Zealand (everything from deer to rabbits to wallaby, etc), as well as native animals which the reserve is trying to rehab, educate the public about, or help with repopulation efforts (kiwi, kaka, etc). In addition, we had a Ko Tane or Maori experience where Devin led us as our Chief into a Maori village, and during a music and dance performance, the “gals” got to try Poi Balls and the “guys” got to try a haka Kapai! Afterwards, we gathered in the restaurant to have a hangi which is food smoked in the ground. Very tasty!
Cheers, Dr. H and Meryl
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