Sorry for the COMPLETE lack of updates on this here blog. We've been in Australia (last week) and NZ this week, and it's too hard to find the time and to justify the money to spend on the internet (compare: 25 cents an hour in Cambodia, 3 dollars an hour in Auckland!).
Anyway, just want to let everyone know that we're still alive and kicking. Sydney was great, and we met up with our trekking guide from Nepal (who's now going to school there), and my cousin (who treated us to beers and dinner). We mostly looked for sleeping bags for our upcoming NZ trekking.
We flew to Auckland 5 days ago, and leave tomorrow for Lake Waikaramoana for a 4-night 5-day trek. After that, we're headed for the south island to copy our friends and do the 3-night 4-day Kepler track in Fijordland. Today, we went to the open bird sanctuary of Tiritiri Matangi, a predator-free native environment full of super rare endemic NZ birds. Of note, we saw the super-duper rare Takahe, a huge green-and-blue flightless bird (the size of a turkey) with a huge red beak. We probably say about 20 different kinds of birds there, and only really missed out on seeing wild Kiwi, which are nocturnal anyway.
Hope you're all well, and we'll be back in America on 11.April.
-Mike.
1 comment:
oooh bummer too bad! was looking fw to hearing about AU! stay at the rocks? go on a ferry ride? blue mountains?
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