1995 Hauturu Panoramas but they are not from 1995 or are they?

Kakapo Recovery Programme

I met Don Merton on Little Barrier Island and was able to congratulate him for his phantastic work. We were feeding the Kakapos with almonds walnuts and bits of apple and a special honey-water mix. Clearing and setting the rat traps (bait: white chocolate lentil-shaped sweets worked best) was part of the job. I even had to kill a few Kiore rat that were still alive!! We frequently would find kakapo feathers on the path to the summit. Kakapo feathers wonderously smell exactly like frankincense. As a former catholic altar boy I should know! During one of my stays Richard Henry and one of the spinsters made eggs. and it was my choice of apple that baited the cage that caught the kakapo that lost its transmitter. It was alos the last kakapo that came off the island. Fabulous Dave Barker's dogs weren't needed, I think. I would really like to meet everybody again. Write me an email if you find this page and remember me.
More Photos from my trips as a Department of Conservation volunteer are here and here and here and here and here and here and here, there are also some private photos, here and here but you need to email me first, they contain photos of persons, and are therefore private.

b5mayf4 panorama of clouds over Hauturu at sunset 1714x458pixels 500k	b5mayol The old farm-land on Hauturu, the Ranger's house in the background. Panorama 116 5x463pixels 390k	b5mayxq Clouds over the Hauturu mountains	b5mazbv Sunset colours in the clouds over Hauturu
b5mazmi Keruru (wood pigeon)	b5mblj0 great Panorama of Titoki Point on Hauturu 3310x457pixels 1.3meg	b5mbmbx Kiore (Maori introduce rats)	b5mbmpo The old shed and the bunkhouse in the background
b5mbm4h Full Moon	b5mbngv Tuatara, subadult	b5mbnuj Tautara	b5mbowv Tuatara
b5mbqe1 Tuatara	b5mbrat Tuatara female	b5mbroi Sony shortwave ICF SW-1 radio on big bolders	b5mbtj8 trees, Kauri forest panorama 2200x446pixel 1.2meg

b5mbuot nice 1.1meg 1560x964pixel panorama of Hauturu	b5mbv7l nice 2.9meg 4500x941pixel panorama of Hauturu	b5mb1i3 nice 1.3meg 2300x836pixel panorama of Hauturu	b5mb28r great sunset panorama of west-landing 3000x450pixels 800k
b5mb36z looking south beach 700k 2200x454pixel panorama	b5mb46d slightly kinked panorama of Hauturu 2367x946pixels 1.5meg	b5mb767 approaching Hauturu panorama 6422x873 pixels 4meg	b5mcewa hauraki gulf islands panorama 3200x890 pixels 2meg
b5mcian Tiritiri Matangi wharf panorama 1.7meg 2384x935pixels	b5mclbq panorama of Auckland, North Head, Rangitoto 2659x418pixels 810kb	b5mcm1t morning's airpollution over Auckland panorama 4300x930pixels 2.8meg	b5mcrpl two big Kauri trees
b5mcttz Titoki Point from below the Thumb, Herekohu	b5mcvy1 erorsion record photo Hauturu	b5mcx1e the thumb, as seen from the summit	b5mcz4q looking north-west towards Hen and Chickens from the summit
b5mc2wi blue mushroom (..hochstetteri?)	b5mc3oe blue mushroom (..hochstetteri?)	b5mc4tu moss wonderland on the thumb	b5mc6p0 a red mushroom
b5mc8en gegenschein? opposite of the setting sun. Hauturu	b5mc871 sunset on the beach (west landing)	b5mc9ws sun in the west	b5mc0od Dolphins riding the underwater bow-wave.
b5mda07 Dolphins riding the underwater bow-wave.	b5mdcsg Hauturu Island	b5mdfmu The boys and the sea.	b5mdgxf Tiritiri Matangi wharf
b5mdhyf Tiritiri Matangi wharf	b5mdiix night-time shot of Auckland from the Devonport Ferry (bad focus)	b5mdios Auckland skyline mar99 from the Devonport Ferry	b5mdjqd The Hauturu and the Daldy on Devonport Wharf
b5mdpqu moonlight over hauturu	b5mdpx7 hauturu, north eastern end	b5mdp42 the east-coast of Hauturu Panorama 2129x486pixels 409kB	b5mdqdp the north-east end of Hauturu panorama 1607x445pixel 530kB
b5mdqkq panorama of the north-eastern coast of Hauturu 1935x423pixel 362kB	b5mdqsx panorama of rising Sun and setting Moon, with strange arc of light towards the s outh. 2319x592pixels 877k	b5mdq5a hauturu, north eastern end	b5mdq01 Hauturu mountains
b5mdrpm moonlight at dawn