Saturday was our biggest day on #Rakiura #StewartIsland. We flew in a small plane from Oban to remote Mason Bay on the west coast and walked back to Freshwater Landing.

Walk from Mason Bay to Freshwater Landing. Starts with a big dune system then a vast peat bog. Lots of board walks. Interesting environment. Also easy and flat all the way.
#Rakiura #StewartIsland

Rakiura/Stewart Island weka taking an interest in my pack. They don't have the slightest fear of humans and lots of curiosity. When we dozed off in the sun one of them settled in next to us for a sleep. Just hanging out with the hoomans.
#weka #Rakiura #StewartIsland

Some random texture shots. Iron, leaves, ice, and wood.

Details on each image's #AltText

#Texture #photography #NaturePhotography #Aotearoa #NewZealand #StewartIsland #LakeTekapo #TravisWetland

On #Rakiura #StewartIsland for the day. Beautiful weather. #Southland

Roadtrip to Invercargill this morning. Adventure on #StewartIsland is calling. Check have music and I’m off. Garden is looking overgrown but good.

In 2019 Stewart Island was granted $3.16m from the Provincial Growth Fund to help build two wind turbines. That project was canned in 2021 because islanders couldn't agree where to site the turbines.

The entire island is still powered by diesel and electricity prices are going through the roof at 81c per unit.

Pity about the wind turbines.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130710715/stewart-island-residents-may-face-25-power-price-increase

#NZ #StewartIsland #electricity #windpower

Kia ora! #Introduction: #moving here from @mastodon.social because it's bigger than its organisers want (over 900,000 users) and I can't keep up with its local #timeline. A #NewZealand-based #instance is the obvious #MoveAccount choice: my #parents and I were all born here and my #OE doesn't extend even as far as #StewartIsland or #KapitiIsland). I'm an administrator on newzealand.fandom.com - one of #Fandom's fairly quiet #Wikis. #chess #civilization #freeciv #Forest&Bird #UNICEF #genealogy