A small geocache placed near my
arrival point at Peka Peka Beach.
Over Exhausted @ Peka
Peka
Haere Ra, a fond farewell and heart felt thanks to all the good
folk in Aotearoa for their compassion and care when this rather
be-draggled and pooped penguin swam ashore at Peka Peka beach. And
a geocache placement as a special thank you to all my Wellington
geocaching friends I met at my first event cache I attended in
Tawa. It was most appreciated in being shown how to work a GPS
receiver, as rather remarkably I leave your friendly shores with
one tucked under my wing! Hopefully I will remember what I was
taught, and navigate my way back home, you can track my progress
here.
An amazing experience it has been, and as much as we all enjoy
our Big O.E. there comes a time to return home, to meet
your happy chick, and build a nest together. The memories will
always remain.
I leave today aboard the NIWA vessel Tangaroa on the first
leg of my journey home. It will take some four days to reach
latitude 51 degrees South when it will be time for me to swim the
remaining 2000km, a journey that should take about 4 weeks.
Access to the cache is from the end of Peka Peka road, either park
there and waddle the short distance to the cache, or continue onto
the beach in your happy wheels and make it a drive by.
The cache was placed with the assistance of a local geocacher who
will also maintain it in my absence