Blue penguins are about 16 inches tall, which makes them too large to be called foot-long penguins but small enough to be the smallest species of penguins in the world. They live in southern Australia and New Zealand, and spend their days at sea looking for small fish and squid to gulp. In the evening, they return to …
In 2006, 2008 and 2010, I was fortunate enough to be part of Alma College’s New Zealand Experience, an 18-day class in New Zealand to take in the sights, sounds, culture and critters. Mark and his coworker, Mel, set up the trip and included opportunities to see royal albatross, yellow-eyed penguins and other critters I’ll probably have …
During our second week in New Zealand I discovered that I should have brought my computer to NZ rather than “renting” time on a clunky old computer at our hotels. See, in NZ, you generally buy 10-30 minutes of time to use a NZ computer, and if you’re quick, you’ll think that 10 minutes will …
I have just a few minutes before our bus comes to take us to one of my all-time favorite spots in New Zealand, Stewart Island. Mark and I are with 22 Alma College students and another professor, and spent the first few days in the town of Dunedin doing day trips to the Royal Albatross colony and a site …