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Robyn and sunfish at the museum  
   

Robyn and sunfish at the museum

the sunfish's expression may give the impression that Robyn is touching it inappropriately but...um, well, I guess she is....
Butterflies in Dunedin

December 12th 2007
The Otago Museum in Dunedin has recently opened their new "Tropical World" butterfly house, so Robyn and I took a quick overnight trip down there to check it out. We did a few things that we also did last December when in Dunedin (the albatross colony, the aquarium, yellow-eyed penguins, things like that) so I won't repeat them here but there are photos to follow. What I will cover is the Tropical ... read more
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New Zealand Flag The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more
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19th August 2015

sunfish
In the middle of the 1950's a friend and myself were down at the foreshore in Dunedin where we found a large round fish, we are pretty sure it was a Sunfish. Just wondering what the history is on the sunfish on show is?

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