Seals and Dead Stoats

Last Friday we took a short trip south of Wellington to a suburb called Island Bay. Here are some photos from the journey.

At the beginning of the walk.

I like the horizontality of this one.

"Red"

So many seals sunbathing.

For the LOTR readers out there, this is where right outside the Black Gate was filmed... when Sam slipped down the slope and Frodo had to cover him with his rock cloak thing. At least we're pretty sure this is where that was filmed.

Big big big big water.

OOH candid

Take a hop off these rocks and keep on swimming until you're in Antarctica!

Happy Devon

If I make this picture any bigger it kind of goes off the page, but click on it if you want to get the full effect.

This is a dead stoat that I almost stepped on. Part of the joke is that some of the policy work I do is on pest management in New Zealand. Stoats are pests here, and this one seems to have died (probably from poison). So +1 Devon! I must be doing something right.