Wellington Zoo and Weta Workshop

Friday was spent at Wellington Zoo.  We sat in on the farm yard feed,  the Kea talk and the Tiger talk and managed to see most of the animals.

DH and  PB managed to touch an emu, a kangaroo and a kunekune pig!  

The Kea talk was great,  there were five Kea,  really inquisitive and cheeky and they came right down in amongst us.   So cool.  

They are only found in the South Island and the population is mostly male now because the females are on the nests in burrows when they are attacked by predators, so they have no place to go.  

The zoo did quite a lot of promotion around recycling,  conservation and about how to help the plight of animals in the wild through choosing products with a particular 'safe' mark on them.
PB and I finished the day with a game of frisbee in the park next door to the association campsite.  

Saturday was spent going to a tour at Weta Workshop in the morning.  Well worth it!  The young guide was very knowledgeable,  the stories were so interesting and  the people who work there are incredibly passionate and talented.
We were waiting for our tour to start when in walked our dear friends from Waiuku!  Such a small world!  We were so pleased to see them that we arranged a catch up on the afternoon and had a lovely time chatting in a Belgian beer bar.
We extended our time in Wellington by another night and will be heading off to Lake Ferry tomorrow instead.