On Sunday Aimee. Aurora and Miss Long visited Motuihe Island as part of a prize for collecting so many moth pods earlier in the year!
We travelled there on a very old boat - Ethel - she was built it 1896! There were 4 other boats too.
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| These are the other boats |
We sat out on the deck and enjoyed the ride! It took quite a while! On the way we saw some little blue penguins in the sea.
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| Aurora helped put up the sail |
To get ashore we had to go on a little boat called SEALEGS - it grows 'legs' (wheels) when it reaches the beach!
When we arrived we heard about the history of the island and how they have made it PREDATOR FREE and now lots of rare native birds live there - including KIWI! There's also Tuatara living there - we saw a tail of one as it disappeared down a hole!
Sadly Miss Long spotted a few moth pod growing! Even here! So it really is getting EVERYWHERE!
We need to keep up our work removing this pest weed.
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| We went on a big walk exploring some of the island |
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| We saw big tree weta in here |
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| This seagull had made a nest here and had 2 eggs |
Huge thank you to...
PEST FREE HOWICK WARD
CLASSIC YACHT CHARITABLE TRUST
MOTUIHE TRUST
for making this awesome experience possible!
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