While I have been in Noosa, Bill has been at Waiheke. Because we got in at midnight, and there are no ferries at 1.00 am, Mary and I stay at Mum's apartment in Abbotts Way. Mary drops me to find an Uber to meet Bill. In the morning Mary drives back to Taupo. Bill and I meet up with Andy Morris. That was a lovely catch up. I forgot the photo!
Then it was out to Waiheke. Bill had meetings in town. Look who greeted me in a driveway as I walked to our house.
Before that I had picked up Roz and Max off the ferry, as you do in Waiheke. They are a lovely couple from Wanaka I met on the ferry. They were spending the day in Waiheke. I took a photo of them at the other end of Onetangi Beach. We came into the beach via the scenic route.
I head off on a bike ride to one of our favourite places on Waiheke. We go past the sports ground and I am awed by the kowhai's in flower and this tui.
The best nectar is sometimes got upside down.
And I have missed the sound of the tuis while we have been away. They have five different songs. Here one is drinking and too busy to sing.
At Whakanewha Regional Park.
Talking to a DOC ranger at what we call Dotterel Bay, she has seen six dotterel nests here. She told me a story of when she approached a nest, and the female dropped down as if she had a broken wing. She was protecting anyone from getting to her nest, by putting the focus on her. They do this to protect their nests. This is a male dotterel.
They make their nests not far above the tide line. This can be a problem now when we get spring tides more frequently.
The DOC ranger took my photo.
I took hers. This is Amy.
