Penguins and parakeets and wetas, oh my!

This weekend, the IFSA Butler kids went to Maitu/Somes Island to volunteer for a day, helping out with conservation work. We painted a fence, fixed up a path, and cleared ground for a garden. We also saw a few blue penguins, red crowned parakeets, weta carcasses, and sheep. Lots of sheep. (There are invariably sheep.)

Maitu/Somes Island, located in Wellington Harbor, is under the control of the Department of Conservation, thanks to which it is entirely free of mammalian predators. Its maintenance depends strongly upon volunteer effort. If you ever go to Wellington and want to give back, get in touch with the folks from Maitu/Somes and offer to lend a hand.

Enough talk. Pictures!































There'll be more pictures once I get them off my Cybershot.

Kia ora!

- Becky