Sat. Feb 9, 2013.
We were in Napier, NZ today.
This is a town that is Art Deco. They
had lots of cool old cars from the 1920s and 1930s. There were people dressed in costumes. They were having a bagpipe contest. It was like a band contest. We watched that for a bit.
Afterwards, we walked down the promenade to the National
Aquarium. We saw a real cool scooter
park with ramps like a skateboard park at home.
At the Aquarium we saw a Kiwi.
There were 2 of them, a brother and sister that were hatched there. They were Northern Brown Kiwi. There are 4 main types of kiwi-
large & regular Spotted, Northern & Southern Brown.
They also had a neat Little Penguin (also known as Little
Blue) exhibit. Many of them are rescues. Some are missing a flipper and one has a
paralyzed right flipper. Many of the
rest were abandoned chicks. They fed
them while we were there. They are the
smallest type of penguin, only about 18 inches.
This is much smaller than the Kings we saw in Auckland, they get to
about 38 inches. We also saw pregnant seahorses and baby
seahorses- you could barely see them.
Tonight’s show was a ventriloquist. He was funny.
He had a baby puppet, an old man puppet and a crow. I got to meet him after the show and take a
picture.
