After a 17 hour day of flying we arrived in Christchurch at 9 am and picked up our Toyota Hiace van. She's got a name, Caroline II, and she has 400,000 km on her.
We drove 3 minutes to the Woolworths for groceries and then another 5 to the Riverside Holiday Park where we set up. We thought we'd fall asleep right away but we didn't sleep at all. For one thing it's 28 degrees today, the NZers are surprised too, it was 13 degrees yesterday.
Fantails and silvereyes were abundant among this road lined with what Leo thinks are Monterrey pines.
We went for a walk around the neighborhood and saw quite a few common New Zealand birds including a lifer for us: New Zealand fantail. We also refamiliarised ourselves with several Australian species: Australian magpie, masked lapwing, silverwing. And there's lots of introduced European birds: song thrush, house sparrow, starling.
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