Ice Age
Trip Start
Nov 28, 2007
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Trip End
Jan 20, 2008
Omaru, New Zealand
Monday, December 29, 2008
After waking up this morning at the base of Mt. Cook we were treated to yet another great walk (two days in a row - yay!). Good conditions and well kept pathes, we walked a track in Mt. Cook Nt. Park which had a pleasant surprise at the end - iceburgs! I don't think any of us were expecting it, really, least of all me! I was so delighted! It really surprised people, though, since I'm from Canada and everything ("Don't you see them all the time?") - it's so funny what people think!
Another bush camp tonight, overlooking the beach, and we went penguin watching in the evening. They're so cute! We were first dropped off by a beach to have a "self-guided tour", where apparently tons of penguins were going to fill the beach below after a day of swimming. It would've been a total bust (not one penguin came on that beach) had we not discovered a nesting place of Mama (or Papa, I guess) and two babies. Right next to the fence of the board walk - so close! They're stinky things, but very very cute! The next portion of the trip we watched little blue penguins come ashore after a day at sea - even more cute! You can't take photos, because it hurts their eyes, but they're only a foot tall at most and are blue with white bellies. So sweet!
