Rainbow Springs Nature Park and Kiwi Experience are right next to each other	All these outdoor places have umbrellas for borrowing next to the entrance. Don't see that in the US!		Pool with rainbow trout, with old camera	Same pool with new camera - compare colors

	The baby fish are kept here until they grow enough to transfer to the bigger pool	The dark mass on the right top is a school of baby trout.	The curling frond is a new fern leaf about to uncurl - in its curled state it's one of the symbols or icons of New Zealand.

	Informative signs and an audio tour teach us a lot		Redwood trees next to the path	Redwood trees (think California) were planted here in the 1930's. The mild humid climate makes them grow twice as fast here as in California.	More curly fern tree fronds

	Neat birds	A pair of birds nestled together. We went in again later and they were still paired together in a different part of the enclosure.	Parrots in the top left corner, hiding in the dark

		Swan - a white "Mute" swan (at the lake house we saw black swans)		Bad sun angle - parrot in the bottom right	Paradise Duck

	and another		Man that's one big eel! Not very long but very thick.	Adult Tuatara lizard (see next photo for info)

	Baby ones in a separate enclosure		The Moa is an extinct bird, native to New Zealand, really was about this big, wiped out by hunting. Only fossil bones remain.	Emu

	pretty wild		Big rainbow trout	cute little pig

	black sheep looking for food, but the machine was broken

	hen sitting on her chick	Lots of baby chicks!	Tamar Wallaby - a smaller species so this one is full-grown	cute ducks

	man-made waterfall in the park, but still pretty	Even the steps on the pathway are beautifully mossy	petting an emu - weird feeling feathers	They have kiwis here but they're all sleeping - this is just a model :-)	"don't litter" etc

	Tacky Tourist "email your photo here"... but...	Typical Microsoft crash - crashed on reboot doing Scandisk :-)	Bob is happy - he has m&m's	Bob & Sue next to a huge kiwi statue. They're really small birds - smaller than a chicken. We got to see 3 live ones inside the Kiwi Encounter.	Across the parking lot is Kiwi Encounter - see kiwi birds. But no cameras allowed inside :-( Kiwi's in the wild are an endangered species - dogs, stouts, feral cats, etc are killing them at a rapid pace. There are 4 species of Kiwi bird and 2 sub-species, some species have only a couple hundred birds remaining.

	This private company is trying to reverse their decline. Volunteers find eggs in the wild, incubate them, raise the babies up to survival weight and release them back into the wild. Natural survival rate of chicks is 5%; the Kiwi Encounter volunteers have their released ones at 85%. The Kiwi bird population is still declining but they're hoping it'll turn soon.