A belated pre-christmas posting!!!

(on our way up for the birthday boys treat!)

Greetings all from Okarito

Arohanui from this small Family to you all over the Festive/Holiday season!

Apologies for being so slack on the well wishing front!!!

it has been a very busy year but here comes the busy season so the posts will be a bit random for a time...... so We hope everyone is enjoying their Hols and take care on what ever adventures are had!!!

The Birthday boy on his big day out to the Luge!!

The smile says it all really!

Love and hugs to all

the okaritoites xxx

Christmas day

Just a few Christmas shots of the Rata which seems to be having a great flowering year!

We had a gorgeous day! the weather was stunning!

A Rather happy boy out and about on the mud flats and thru the salt marsh.

we went for a great walk and ended up doing a wee mission for cockles to have for tea... mmmm...yum,yum!

It was awesome having a day to just cruise around in! and the weather was so kind! It brought us all back to the reality of why we live here.

The Vege Patch.

I think I need to find some time to get this area a bit under control! Flowers seem to be out numbering vegetable at the moment!

Yay!.... I harvested my first zucchinis for the season, hopefully 10 plants should see us thru!

The other morning before the rain set in for a few days!

I could hear a loud hum coming from the vegetable garden .....the bees were going crazy! some flower heads had about 6- 8 bees in it plus the Hebe hedge was alive!

Have a great week.

Arohanui x

Kiwi Chick - Seven Days Old

This morning M got the priviledge of holding a kiwi chick - only seven days old! This chick had just been collected from the forest by the Department of Conservation Kiwi Recovery Team. If left in the forest it would only have a 5% chance of survival, as these chicks are heavily predated by introduced stoats. The chick will be taken to a special predator free island for about one year, or until it reaches about 1 kilogram in weight. It will then be able to fight off stoats and will be returned to the Okarito forest.
Okarito Kiwi can live up to 100 years of age, and can be actively breeding for most of that time.

An Evening Stroll.

It was a gorgeous evening tonight.

So we all decided on a walk after tea to remember why we live here!!

This was the first image and then the whole evening changed with brilliant sunshine and a crazy warm wind.

Check out those waves!!.....yes it IS Okarito beach!

Lots of fun was had with Richie on the other end of the camera!