Day 9 - Rotoura

So we are now in Rotoura and this town is hard to explain. It smells like rotten eggs so badly from the sulfur thermal beds being right next to every building. But the town is very beautiful and the people here are so nice. Today we decided to go to a animal sanctuary and see all the different animals. So hope you enjoy and more will come of Rotoura tomorrow.

pretty green

huge geothermal power plant for rotoura

love driving here so much to see and not alot of people

really love the trees the surround the roads

these signs are everywhere with kiwis on them

A DeHavilland Beaver hanging on the lake

another plane coming in

an old bath house that is now a museum

old people playing crochet.. never seen this before and it fits so well here

a nice park

the other side of the lake

a morris mini

He truly does love the pies out here

us hanging out for the day at the animal sanctuary

pretty girl lion

this lion reminds me of the Schapers' cat flash

big boy

this is a local bird called a Kea

beautiful yellow bird that loved following bryan cause once again he had food

Rainbow trout in a natural spring pond...so clear water

more trout

wallabies

bryan playing and feeding the ducks

baby ducks

He was feeding and helping this one little duckling

Baby pony and it mommy

Feeding her

Feeding sheep..they feel so weird

this goat was dumb..

creepy goat eyes

Feeding them was funny cause they always stick there tongues out for more

they wanted food so bad they kept getting stuck

feeding a goat and a donkey

more goats and donkeys

these guys are fast ..Alpacas

teaching the goat tricks...i tip my head he tips his

feeding a deer and his antlers just fell off

this lion was all over the other lions

told you this guy followed us

These are the cubs Benji and Bella they are 11 weeks old

We got to pet them and they were so soft and playful

He loved playing with Bryan

Bella playing with the fence

Totally adorable

yeap thats us

our drive out for lunch

this is Rotoura from up top the light color area just below the mountains is a sulfur beach...very stinky

thats the lake from up top

more signs

really good pie

he finally woke up cause its close to feeding time

Bella playing

Saw the meat coming out

Big stretch

This lion was 21 years old

very cool to watch them fight over food and growl

determined to get some food

Horse meat is what they mostly feed them cause its the closest to zebra

A redwood tree

All the types of ferns

spring waterfall

a possum and there are 8 billion here in the country and thats why they hunt these

And on our way back home

Hope you enjoyed the pictures and to those you that want to know we did not try and bring one of the cubs home, eventhough it was tempting cause they are so dang cute. So the adventures will continue but for now you will ahve to wait till tomorrow..