Living in the CBD during the Wellington Sevens leaves you with two choices: dress up, drink up and join in the fun OR flee. We chose the latter, and also took advantage of the long, fine holiday weekend to do some birding and tramping around Auckland. To the Southeast, just beyond the Hunua hills, we stopped at the Miranda Shorebird Centre, where from the blinds we saw hundreds of wrybill--the only bird in the world whose bill is bent sideways--and the even more rare NZ plover.
The following day, we headed to Waitakere Forest (aka the "Ark in the Park") to the West and had a glorious tramp among the kauri stands, but no luck spotting kokako. The Pou (guardian statue) photo above was taken at the trailhead. In between, we ate our way up and down Queen Street, visited the Art Museum
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