Archive for November, 2008
COAST TO COAST NZ, NEW ZEALAND
“COAST TO COAST”
Auckland is on an isthmus;
on the West coast it has the Tasman Sea, (which is the sea between Australia and New Zealand), and on the East coast it has the Pacific Ocean. The South West Pacific Ocean is a very large area of sea with not much landmass in it. The nearest largest [...]
New Zealand WETA, an endangered insect
The New Zealand Weta is an endangered insect.
The Maori call the weta wetapunga [translated this means "a God of ugly things"], and the word weta is only a New Zealand word. Peter Jackson, the film Director of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘King Kong’, calls his company ‘WETA productions’. During the filming of King Kong, he magnified a weta and used it in a scene where a giant insect attacks some people!
If you see a weta while you are travelling around New Zealand, please respect and care for this insect,
…but do beware, they can give you a very hard bite!
GUINEA-PIGS at Coast to Coast Tours Auckland
MEET THE COAST TO COAST GUINEA-PIGS
I’ve always liked guinea-pigs, and I feel they are one of the most misunderstood little creatures.
“Stick them in a cage, and they’ll be right”, is what a lot of people think!, but this is far form the truth….
Like humans, guinea-pigs cannot store Vitamin C, so they require an adequate [...]
