Crusty old barnacles.
We woke bright and early to the dawn chorus of tuis, bellbirds, stitchbirds and warblers. There is a predator proof fence around the park and they have eradicated most of the native bird's predators within the boundary. Some of the natives have been reintroduced from Tiritiri Matangi Island where Ali went recently for a school trip.
After breakfast we went exploring along the beach in the other direction. It was a bit drizzly but somehow never enough to get us wet :-) Just around the first headland we found this great tree to climb.
After we got back to the tent and had some lunch everyone (except Lily) had a bit of a snooze. When we got up it was time to pack up. We packed up everything except the tent because Ali was still asleep. Then we packed up the tent fly, and then deflated her mattress, and then we had to wake her up. She must have been really tuckered out from all the exploring. We got everything into the car then stopped for one last glimpse of the fish in the lagoon and the dotterels on the shore before heading for home.
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