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February 14th 2006

Published: March 7th 2006

I have decided that we are doing the NZ farms and gardens a big favour with our travels. Wherever we go, we bring the rain. We arrive in a new spot, bringing rain. It rains while we are there, and everyone tells us it was fine until now. On the day we leave, the sun comes out, and we drive along baking in the sun. But it clouds over just as we arrive. We had to pass by many interesting things, su... Read Full Entry

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A.L. Carney

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I am doing a few weeks of voluntary work at an environmental learning centre in Central America. For gardening and teaching some local women some felting and other textile crafts, and to update the centre's website. It is a very interesting place, and the programmes are quite impressive. There are 8 volunteers here I think, two of us are twenty nine, and the rest are in their early to mid 20s. The website does better justice to the huge undertaking this has been: http://www.learningcentercostarica.org/ This is from 4 years ago My 25 year old daughter Erin and I are leaving fo... full info

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High heifers

You just don't expect to see cattle way up there in the hills. How do they manage to not fall? I didn't think they were the most sure-footed of hoofed animals.

summit drive

Oamaru

There is a penguin colony at Oamaru that we visited, but it was too early for them to come in for their evening feeding.

Oamaru Penguin Colony

The view from the penguin viewing blind was pretty good even without the penguins. We did see some porpoises however. A big pod of them.

Oamaru Penguin Colony

In case you hadn't figured it out, I have a thing about clear sparkly water.

Oamaru penguin colony

Something you don't see too often in downtown Toronto. Pat retrieved a paua shell from the beach that I spotted down a big slope.

How would you like to

live in a house with a crumbling facade of rock in your backyard?

Moeraki Boulders

This is as close as we got!

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