Our wild trek to find the penguins!!

We set out around 9:30 this morning on the Robinson Crusoe Beach and Tawaki Penguin Discovery Walk!!

Our lodge's description of the walk:
"We drive a short distance south from the lodge and walk a hidden trail beneath ancient rimu, silver beech and kahikatea trees to a magnificent wild beach where from June to December up to 30 pairs of Tawaki (Fiordland Crested Penguins) nest in the forest behind the beach. On our 15 minute walk to the beach the forest abounds in primeval tree ferns, kidney ferns spleenworts, filmy fern and many kinds of mosses and lichens....

Note the track to the beach crossed a small stream four times."

Note: Trina does not love nature hikes. As much as I enjoy walking, I much prefer urban hikes over nature walks.

However, we discovered that given the right shoes (ie: rubber boots!) it turns out I can actually have a great time walking around in slushy mud, over rocks, through fern trees, and especially crossing streams!! Who knew!!