{"id":27,"date":"2007-03-03T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2007-03-03T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T05:00:04","slug":"karori-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Karori Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kitted with Tim&#8217;s 20D and 17-55mm f2.8 IS lens and my own Sigma 120-300mm, I made the attempt to find something interesting to do. Walked along to the information centre, grabbed some brochures, and was off for a quick read. I had my eyes fixed on the Seal visit, but seemed rather expensive, and had seen some in Kaikoura, in late 2005, so wasn&#8217;t too worried about seeing them. Decided to check out the wildlife sanctuary up in Karori.<\/p>\n<p>Before heading East, took a quick stroll around Frank Kitts Park, and Te Papa&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_heli.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_papa.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick 10 min bus ride (yeah Wellington is very small ;)) &#8211; and I was already there. Surprisingly the air was still.<\/p>\n<p>Soon through the entrance, I met a young German couple, Daniel &#038; Annalena (hello!) &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dspiecker.com\/\">www.dspiecker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of the birds I stumbled across:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_bird1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_bird2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_bird3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_bird4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_bird5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blogpics\/wellington_bird6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After walking for 6 hours practically non stop, decided it was time to head back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitted with Tim&#8217;s 20D and 17-55mm f2.8 IS lens and my own Sigma 120-300mm, I made the attempt to find something interesting to do. Walked along to the information centre, grabbed some brochures, and was off for a quick read. I had my eyes fixed on the Seal visit, but seemed rather expensive, and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-aviation","category-general","category-people","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}