Stupid fucking weka ate my dinner. It was my fault for leaving it under my tent enclosure, what did I think was gonna happen.
One of the meals is completely gone, the other has a beak sized hole pluked into it. I could probably eat it, but who knows what weird animal disease I’d get. Plus it’s hard to cook it now that it has that hole.
Luckily tonight is my last night, and I’m catching a bus at 11:20 tomorrow. And the walk tomorrow is only 3ish miles. Then it’s a 4 hr bus ride to Nelson, but hopefully there’ll be a stop before then for food.
I’ll probably be running somewhat of a caloric deficient, but I’m not gonna starve. It’ll just be kinda shitry tonight.
Until then, I get to enjoy a new food invention — gummy trail mix! It consists of gummy worms and trail mix. Here’s a pic:
Also today, while I was climbing over rocks and exploring the beach side, I came across a sleeping seal! I was singing and humming to myself when I stumbled upon him and he didn’t hear, so he must have been passed the fuck out. I took a couple pics with him. Here they are:
Then I decided itd be a bright idea to wake him up and see what would happen. So I “clapped” and his eyes opened, and he looked at me with that groggy “i just woke up” look, before he realized I was a scary human. Then he flopped away from me in a hurry to a respectable distance, before deciding it wasn’t worth sticking around and went back into the ocean. Hopefully I didn’t scare him from ever sleeping on those rocks again 🙁
I guess the weka eating my food is karmatic payback for waking up the seal.
Anyways, at the beginning of the day I did a river crossing. Here it is:
Also during this day I visited “separation point”. They put fake fiberglass birds there along with a speaker maling bird sounds in am attempt to get a certain species of bird to settle there. Here’s info and some pics:
..as well as some bonus photos.