Back on the bus we head off and thankfully Ian's Ipod has taken over from the random mix of music that we were subjected to yesterday. Even so I'm pretty sure we murdered Bohemian Rhapsody.
We stop (in the rain) in Hokitika - home of the greenstone and H picked up a Kora (fern curl), and then we stopped at Pukekura - for a visit to the Bushman Centre - a tiny place but well worth it's own blog entry just for the pure amusement value.
As we pulled up we could already see this magnificent Stag, and then Pete, the Bushman boarded the bus to warn us that we would not like the bushman centre if we were from "Planet Bambi"
He explained that there were two types of Possums in New Zealand - flat ones and round ones, and I was going to get to see my first "round one" inside!
First we watched a short video about the introduction of deer to New Zealand, how they soon bred out of control and professional hunters were brought in to cull them. With the introduction of a venison market these guys tried capturing them from the hills instead by jumping out of helicopters onto their backs, and eventually they rounded up large numbers and started to farm them. The video was hilarious.
From here we were left to wander the small room, with buttons to press. I luckily turned around to see Sam press the button marked "Press here for the WETA experience" (WETA are the special effects people who did LoTR amongst others) Sam got a jet of water right between the eyes! he he he!!!
With signs up like "If it's not your bottom, don't touch it" you start to get the idea of the type of place it was, and several signs had me giggling for the rest of the bus journey to Franz Josef.
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