This campsite would be awesome if it wasn’t for the terrible view.

#CycleTouring #CurioBay #Catlins

Oh, it's #Penguin awareness day?

I give you this loving couple of #YellowEyedPenguin . The iPhone photo was taken 2013 through 7x50 binoculars in #CurioBay, NZ. Yellow-eyed penguins are endemic to New Zealand and will soon-ish make the #extinction list.
From where I stand behind me, the black, 180 million years old petrified forest rests in the shallow waters. AFAIK, unlike the white variety, black petrified forest kept its carbon which makes it a #carbonsink .
180mio years ago, this location was near today's South pole, global Ø temperature might have been 2ºC warmer than pre-industrial and #CO2 concentration might have been ~900ppm.