New Zealand, sheep and more
We went to New Zealand and it’s weather is awesome! When we first got here, the weather was gorgeous and hot. New Zealand is 268021 km squared the smallest country we have stayed in.
It’s population is 5 million. That is less than Toronto with 6 million. It’s capital city is Wellington. Did you know that New Zealand is made of two islands: the northern island and the southern island. Like Japan, it has no bordering countries because it’s an island.
The Flag looks like this
The flag dark blue background means the blue squadron that is a rank in the Royal Navy and the stars mean the southern cross because the southern cross and be found in southern hemisphere.
When we arrived in New Zealand, we had to go to our house for quarantine. Everyone who was entering the country had to do two weeks of quarantine. Pretty soon after we arrived at that house, we had to move because the government announced that they were going to level 4 lockdown and the people who owned the house kicked us out because they were scaredy cats and wanted to move back in.
Quarantine was so boring because we had to do absolutely nothing. Also, it sucked! We were in lockdown and quarantine for 7 weeks before the country opened back up. We rode bikes, played, did schoolwork and other stuff that you probably did in lockdown.
When we went to level 2, we were able to go to a new place. It was on an Alpaca and sheep farm. They had 4 dogs there names were Rufus, Princess,Emily and Fifi. They also had 3 sheep and 5 Alpacas. We were able to go into the animals paddock and hang out with them if we wanted. We did have a picnic at Kawakawa bay. Ohhhh yeah -I forgot to tell you I’m now 11 years old. I celebrated my birthday in lockdown.
The next place we went to we had to drive for 3 hours drive to get to Rotorua. Aka sulfer city. First, we went to skyline Rotorua where we went on luges down a mountain. The luges were like a small go carts but it is more healthy for the world because it doesn’t use gas and it’s all down hill. The luges worked by when we went down the hill, the wheels spun faster. To stop, we had to pull back on the handles. It was amazing!
We also went to the Polynesian Spa. It’s not like a spa where you go to get your nails done. It’s where you sit in geothermal water with air. Geothermal is heat that comes from below the Earths crust. It has tons of benefits like getting rid of skin problems, relieving pain and more. Can I tell you why it’s called sulfer city.
It’s called that because sometimes it smells like poop. The Polynesian spa was founded in 1800 or the 19 century.
Next, We went to the red wood tree walk. The redwood trees are one of the tallest trees in the world are the coastal redwoods. The red woods that we walked in are smaller because they are younger we walked 20 meters in the air or 65 feet in the air. I loved it!
We also went on a lot of hikes or tramps like they call them here in New Zealand.
We went to the glow worm caves.
Glow worms are not adults yet. They are the larva of the fungus gnat. Also, it can be part of it’s own food chain. A cool fact is, just like spiders they can make a sticky thread. They use that sticky thread and their bioluminescence to attract their prey like angular fish.
The life cycle of the fungus gnat starts with the egg. Then, they hatch into glow worms. Then next, they go in a pupa. Finally, they come out as the Fungus gnat. After 5 days for the males or 5 hours for the females, they die. Not a very long life!!!
The cave is made out of natural lime stone. If you saw my South Africa blog in grade 3, you will know how limes stone is formed. If you didn’t read that blog or you need a refresher here it is: lime stone is made of from water. The rain goes into the ground and the sand stone start to disappear and forms lime stone.
Near the end, we got on a boat and rode down a river and saw like a ton of glow worms.
That’s it for now bye
NATE
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