Monthly Archives
February 2009
It is said that there are 4.18 million people living in New Zealand–and 40.1 million sheep, or 10 sheep for every person. We saw sheep “out and about” during our stay in New Zealand as well! This photo, my favorite of all my postcards, shows sheep on the move outside the Vulcan Hotel in Central Otago. Oh–and Aotearoa is the Maori word for New Zealand!
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“This unique, flightless bird is so readily identified with New Zealand that it has virtually superseded the fern leaf as the country’s emblem. However, being strictly nocturnal, it is seldom seen in the flesh except in parks and zoos. ” While at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, we saw a live kiwi and learned that there are 17 of them in captivity in the United States.
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