Pancake Rocks, and Taking Back the Eggs.

These crazy rock formations (the Pancake Rocks) are in Punakaiki on the west coast of the South Island.

I saw a couple of these Weka (woodhens) when walking to the rocks. About a kilometer down the road, I stopped for lunch: a couple of freshly-boiled eggs with breadrolls. There were two Weka that hung around suspiciously close to the car the whole time. I kept my eye on them, but when I put the prepared lunch down at the table, but I'd forgotten my cup of tea, so I went back to the car to fetch it. On my return, there was only one egg on the plate - the Weka had not been interested in the breadroll, but somehow managed to spirit a jumbo-sized egg away. Would have loved to have seen how he did it
- just gulped the egg down?

This is an evening photo from the Motueka valley - I think its Kiwi fruit being grown in this matrix; whatever it is, I liked the three-dimensional effect.