We woke up to hike a trail a fur seal colony. On our short drive from the campground to the hike we were flagged down by a guy on the side of the road with his hazards on, we rolled down the window and he informed us "theres some sheep coming up the road so please take it easy" we said ok and kept driving expecting to see sheep being herded up the road, instead a few meters later there was a herd of about 10 sheep just walking up the road on their own, not sure how he got them to do it?!?!?
On the hike it did not rain on us but the clouds were very low and you could not see the top of the hills. We walked through private sheep pasture land for most of the way on the edge of the beach on just about the farthest south you can go on the North Island, the sheep run in and out of their fences and were all over the beach even in the reserve, not sure what they are eating or why they decide to pee every time we get close.. Walking along the Cook Straight on a rainy day it is still amazing how blue the water is. Once the land got rocky we found our seals! We rolled up to a group of big males. They did not seem to concerned with us. We kept our distance, but when Paul was positioning himself to get a picture, one of the males let out a groan, and all of the mom's with baby's dove into the sea. We did see some baby's but the were far from us and ready to flee at another call. It was a great way to start the day.
We drove back into the lower hutt and went to the I site. We pulled the trigger and bought a ferry pass that leaves saturday morning at 7am! We are so excited!!! We were not going to go down south until are amigos were coming to visit in Nov, but there is just so much for us there.
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