ABOUT US



ABOUT US
We are from Cornwall, England.
We love to travel and to explore places in a campervan. We find wide open spaces exhilarating
and do lots of walking. Show us an accessible hill or mountain and we want to go up it.
We like watching birds but are not twitchers. To be honest Lawson is more into bird spotting than me but what I find amazing
is the diversity of birdlife, and the fact birds of all sizes continue to live side by side with us humans. So, in the course of our explorations
we may make a detour to the local dump because more often than not it will be one of the best places to see birds.
We are sure New Zealand will not disappoint us when it comes to birds but what about other wildlife and natural wonders?
Will we encounter anything to beat the sight of polar bears on sea ice at the North Pole?
And what will we think of the house at Paraparaumu that Ron and Vivien have built? All will be revealed.......

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Bruce & the possum

Every now and then Bruce would be unable to resist the smell of the wild deer and wild goat that wander the precipitous slopes, or the delicious aroma of possum. He'd slink away and be absent until Sam noticed he was gone and whistled him back.
On Thursday, after we had left the luxuries of the lodge for the last time, and were walking down through the native bush and forest again, away from the wilderness and back to 'civilisation', there was suddenly a commotion. Amidst shrieks and growls Bruce came out of the bush locked in combat with a small possum. The result: Bruce 1, possum 0.
I felt sorry for the possum but they have overrun the country, have no natural predators and are regarded as a pest in NZ.



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