Daily Beauty

Barry used to watch here for dinosaurs 
but has since been watching for a moa
 to poke its head up at any moment.

Almost every day we go for a walk to keep in shape.  We have 3 routes.  One goes along the bay  from Port Opua to Paihia and the other goes from behind Ashby’s and Legge’s boatyards up very steep Lyon St and has several variations.  The third route follows the railroad tracks from Opua to Kawakawa.  All routes are birdy, bushy, scenic and historically interesting.  They go through bush (forest) and are, therefore,  “bushy”.   The one going up Lyon St has giant tree ferns and that is why Barry always keeps his eyes peeled for a dinosaur or a moa which you would expect to see in just such a habitat.  Moas are like  giant ostriches, were present in great numbers when the Polynesians arrived about 1400 and are now extinct.