Cross Country

We all had a fab day at Cross Country in Week 3. We were very lucky with the weather.
Kereru did very well and were great at persevering, even when they got tired!

We're went to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo!

On Tuesday in week 2, we went to Auckland Zoo.
We were so excited because last time we planned to go it was cancelled.

Luckily it was beautiful weather all day!

We had a very interesting leader show us around parts of the Zoo.  We went into the Forest and saw a lot of different, native birds.

Our favourite was definitely the Kereru - one of them was absolutely huge!

The bird songs were lovely to listen to as well.

We then went into a room where we were shown different types of traps that catch pests.
A few of them made a loud noise, which was quite scary.  The leader, Kristy, also showed us different pests that had been caught and stuffed (taxidermy).

We saw stoats, ferrets, rabbits, and possums.

Although these animals don't look dangerous, they are very bad for our native and indigenous animals and plants.

The next place we went to was the 'island' where we saw lizards and a Tuatara!

Miss Halcrow had never seen a real Tuatara before.

At the end of the day we were all very tired!