Westport

Doing a big counterclockwise loop of the South Island put us at Westport for our next stop. There I saw these crazy birds at the campsite called Weka (prounounced wika) birds. They were like across between... hell I don't know. But they were funny to watch and throw scraps to.

New Zealand had no land mammals before man got there 5 or 6 hundred years ago so birds EVOLVED to fill all these strange ecological niches. Like the biggest eagle and the Moa which was a monster sized ostrich-like flightless bird. Of course a hundred years or so after man shows up he manages to eat every last one of them, but their skeletons are found all over here.

I also found my dream car and Lil braved the roaring rapids suspension bridge.