We walked through the gardens and we saw the rock garden. We walked through the rock garden to the pond. There was free duck food. We fed the ducks. Then we went to the park where I played cricket!! It went on for a while they were very nice. I had a lot of fun!!!!
We went inside and went to the to the counter. Then we bought combo tickets for the observatory 1 time and the enchanted forest 🌳 as much as we wanted to. We went to the enchanted forest 🌳 first. 3 butterflies landed on me!!!!!!!!!!! One of them landed in my head!!!!! The other 2 landed on my hand. My mom and dad gave a name to me-butterfly whisperer.
Then we went to the Maori section. We saw a cool war boat. Then we went went to the observatory and we watched a movie 🎥 that was called ” We Are Stars ✨”. It was about the big bang. My mom slept through it!!!!!!
Then we went to the animal section and we saw a Japanese spider crab 🦀. IT WAS HUMONGOUS!!!!!!!!!!! It was bigger than 2 people combined!!! Then we left.
It was very fun!!!!
We were driving to Dunedin and we stopped at the Moeraki boulders. They were amazing!!! They were so round!! There was a boulder that I could climb into. We played catch on the way there and back. I almost hit someone!
We stopped for lunch and we saw a park. It was very very cool 😎! There was a human hamster ball, a steep slide, a cool set of swings, and a long zip line!! I went on the zip line more than the others.
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We drove to the Royal Albatross Center. We were on a tour where we saw a movie and then went to the lookout where birds were nesting. We saw a lot of albatross!! They were flying against the wind. THEY WERE HUMONGOUS!!!!!!!!!! They have a wingspan of 9 feet. The Royal albatross only nest in New Zealand 🇳🇿 ! We also saw albatross that were “courting”.
At 9: 30 we saw blue penguins!!!!!! They’re the smallest penguins 🐧 in the world!! They’re so so sooooooooooooooooo cute!!! They mostly came in groups but one of them came by him or herself. The penguin 🐧 pushed the seagulls out of the way!! The center does the tours to help save the penguins. Since starting, the population has grown from 30 or so to over 100!
It was sooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had lunch 🍴 and booked a tour. We definitely wouldn’t have known what types of birds 🐦 we saw. We even saw a kiwi feather!!!!!!!!!! Kiwis are very rare. That’s why the Eco sanctuary keeps them. Then on the Tui trail we saw a kaka[ a big bird 🐦 that likes nuts]! We were lucky 🍀 to see them. I liked The sound of the Tui alot! Their songs sound amazing because they have 2 voice boxes 📦!!! We saw a bird 🐦 that’s 1 out of 300 of it’s bird!!!!!!! Kiwis are sa rare too!!!
I didn’t want to leave!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gavin Will's Adventures 