oh yeah and... other stuff I forgot to mention

We went on a trip to Stewart Island earlier in the year here are some pics from there. It was nice - I wouldn't call Stewart Island exciting but it is a very picturesque quiet place with great birdlife to boot, we did see the elusive Kiwi our native icon and they are very strage birds - their mating call is a loud screech - they are nocturnal over all of the mainland but the ones on Stewart Island are seen in the early evenings as well as the dead of night, anywhere from dusk onwards really. Some of the larger females come up to about the knee of an average person. We also travelled around the Catlins and up to Milford Sound - its awesome countryside down there on the Lower South Island, its all rolling hills up to the fiords and huge mountians and spectaculer scenery. Its highly underrated in my opinion. Plus there is little or no traffic on the roads. Great if your from Wellington which no matter what route you take out of seems to turn into 1 big bottleneck ;) Why not view the slideshow...