The Welly Zoo and Another Ferry Ride...

First, our sincere apologies for the delay in adding to our blog.  (Now the excuse) We have had no internet where we are staying in Dunedin, which means $5/hour internet use in the city!  Fortunately, our new friends Kashi and Derek have an office downtown where they have let us "poach" their internet, so we are beginning to catch up!  Well, I am catching up for both of us on this end while Z is catching up our bank account at his new job on the other end...


We were scheduled to leave Wellington for Dunedin on Tuesday however that changed when Graeme's airline was canceled due to the now famous volcano.  We could not leave Wellington without saying "so long" to him and hearing about his adventures in Cambodia, so we rescheduled our ferry trip for Friday morning (take note this is the third ferry trip and with one more we will be open to any donations as the lovely ferry is not cheap and air travel would be less expensive if we didn't have our vehicle and bicycles).  That said, in the bonus days staying in Wellington we got to visit the Welly Zoo, which was awesome.

 A perplexed Meerkat looks like a cross between a badger and a squirrel...

 As Zeph was taking this picture, there was a pair "getting busy" just to the left...use your imagination!

 The giraffes were enjoying lunch and fortunately the walkway was taller than they were so we could get a unique view of their gracefulness! 

 The Senegal tiger gave us a great show of tricks before they got quite a hefty snack, consisting of lots and lots of...meat!

 The Sun Bears were creative in enjoying their coconut snacks as they are able to eat with all fours- can you imagine?

I escaped the zoo!  (so did Z)

  We also got to make Graeme a welcome home meal consisting of local mussels, which was amazing.  

The mussels was from Al Brown's new cookbook- Go Fish and they were heavenly...Fortunately, Zeph has impressive patience when it comes to cleaning mussels!  The tomato sauce had garlic, port, and red wine and the bread was fresh sourdough.  Heaven on a plate!

As well as eating some of the award winning Kohu Road vanilla bean ice cream with some local fig jam on top.  (No pictures of this as it wasn't around long enough for a camera to be involved!) Now, onto that ferry...