You notice, I don’t have much time on my hands to take care of my blog in all the details.
I and my beloved parents still drive through New Zealand in giant leaps and have some adventures here and there. That’s how it was planned, after all. 🙂
Thus, we met Mount Cook, the tallest mountain of New Zealand, all cloud-clad and stood in awe:
At our next stay in Canterbury we were guests to an elderly farmer’s residence and she showed us around her lively farm the next day. The sheep are still somewhat shy, but I got a little closer for a picture:
Back in the North Island, when having some pizza, a most special guests made its appearance. It was a weta, which was big in size:
Wetas are not dangerous to humans, as long as they are some of the smaller varieties. This 7 centimetre long specimen is not a giant weta, after all. 😉
In my beloved botanic gardens in Wellington I found some shapes and motives I would like to share with you:
Our special experiences proceeded with observing a freshly hatched butterfly. Our hosts take the caterpillars inside the house and supply them with a plant to pupate, so soon they can witness them hatching:
Underway on the Forgotten World Highway we saw, besides exceptionally beautiful landscapes, the usually rather shy Mount Taranaki almost without any clouds to shield him.
Also, we spent a visit to the Republic of Whangamomona. New Zealand presents you with the nice ‘quirk of administration’ that allows you to get a ‘highly official’ stamp on your passport…
In the ‘foreign country’ Whangamomona. 😀
