Monday, December 22, 2008

On the Road
















On the thirteenth day of our honeymoon, we traveled. We got a late start and wandered further south. We walked across a swing bridge, which made me nervous, saw some seals, and saw some pancake rocks. We also saw one of the funny "hours" signs that seemed to be pretty common in New Zealand.

The Wall Island seal colony was our second stop and admired the views and watched seals playing. While walking around the coastline, we saw 8 wekas, which are a rare bird that I believe only lives in New Zealand. They are one of those silly flightless birds that New Zealand has a lot of. :)

Our third stop was the Pancake Rocks. They are a unique geological formation of rock that look sandwiched, or pancaked together. It was quite an interesting site.

We then continued our travels and drove on 2 1-lane bridges that had train tracks as well. Yes, that is right, the cars and trains share bridges in parts of New Zealand. The first one was a little scary since we've never driven on train tracks before and we had looked out for cars, but not trains. It was at night, which made it a bit more of an adventure, and we weren't able to take pictures.

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