TIRITIRI MATANGI ISLAND

Talofa blogging world, Last week the seniors went on a trip to a Island to learn about the endangered animals. It took about 1 hour to get to the Island because we had to stop at the Hauraki golf to pick up some supporters and guides to take us on a tour around the Island to look for endangered animals. We even got to go on a fairy to the Hauraki golf and to the Island and we got to buy food on the fairy. Something I learnt was when ever Maori's see a Nikau tree they think they are home. Another thing that I learnt was that they had a memorial tree of the birds that had died, and were remembered by the supporters and volunteers. I liked the part when we went on a treasure hunt with our guides and our job was to find little finger puppets.

I saw heaps of tuis and fantails while walking around the Island looking for animals that were our list. We had 14 groups and all the groups had the same list of birds to look for some groups didn't find a white head bird. Other groups did find a white head you have to be quite if you want to find a white head because they are very shy when people are loud because they think that they are going to hunt them. My favourite part was when we came back to Auckland and sleeping in the bus on the way back to school. Something that I didn't like about the trip was when we were coming back, the fairy was going up and down and everyone stood up and screamed then they woke me up. My opinion is that this trip was cool because at the end of the day when we came back to the fairy we got to see the yellow eyed penguins.

Here is a link of the site, where I got all the information from. http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/home

One of the groups that were joined together.

















I thought the trip was really really cool because I learnt heaps more about tuis and Kereru (NZ pigeon).