One weekend it was decided to go to pretend we are the «National Geographic» filming crew and see wild animals in their natural habitat. The goal of the trip were to see seals, who have taken up residence just 5 kilometers from Wellington. Buses run to the coast, but beyond that we had to walk on foot. But walking through such beauty - it's a pleasure!

001 — Wellington is not only windy but also hilly
002 — We went to Fish & Chips, and there’s a poster on the wall with all the fish living nearby
003 — The bus stop board shows how many minutes until the bus arrives!
004 — We got off the bus, we need to go down
005 — Measured the slope in Photoshop, it's 10 degrees, but it seemed much steeper 🙂
006 — This is how you can simply write on a mailbox to stop spam
007 — Oh! Familiar flowers
008 — These are unfamiliar ones
009 — Sun-loving Gazania, it only opens when the sun is shining
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011 — We reached the sea, looked left…
012 — Looked right…
013 — So beautiful!
014 — The stones are oddly eroded by water
015 — Many stones have small puddles with living creatures
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018 — A fragment of a red rock, as a hint that we are heading in the right direction
019 — A strange creature, I don’t even know if it's an animal or a plant o_0
020 — This is how it swells under water
021 — It clusters in little bunches
022 — A dried tentacle of Cthulhu
023 — This is roughly how Cthulhu looks
024 — Smooth pebbles, probably chewed by Cthulhu…
025 — Caught a herring fish :-P
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029 - signs everywhere say that only 4x4 jeeps are allowed to pass
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033 - here are the Red Rocks themselves
034 - these are some striped rocks
035 - a stream flows straight from the sand into the sea
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038 - this is the place where seals <del>smell bad</del> sunbathe. You need to walk to the crevice in the rock (on the right)
039 - here are the seals
040 - the seals growl warningly and smell bad
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046 - view of the road back
047 - actually, it says not to come closer than 25 meters...
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050 - a piece of Cthulhu's hair
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052 - for someone, even a burrow is a home... we didn't visit, just in case
053 - caution! live cables o_O
054 - some photos of the outskirts
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058 - what a vintage jalopy!