Wednesday, 8 October 2008

3Y9M 2Y0M  アザラシを見に行く Seal watching


ウエリントンのサウスコーストに野生のSeal(アザラシ)を見に行った。駐車場から片道1時間半ほどかけて海岸沿いを歩かなければ(4WD車以外乗り入れられない)たどりつけないところにスポットがある。

Phil&Tedsのダブルバギーが本当に役立った。オフロードはこんなのじゃなきゃとてもかなわない。UKでも比較的一般的だったが、なるほど、本国ニュージーランドではほとんどの人がこのバギー。マレーシアは日本同様、このバギーを押しているとみんなが珍しそうに見るけど。

カナダで船に乗ってアザラシウオッチングに参加したことがあるが、アザラシは海から頭を出してぷかぷか浮かんでいた。昨日は嵐のような天気だったから、快晴の今日、アザラシ達は岩場で日光浴。



We went to South coast in Wellington for Seal watching. The spot is 1.5 hours walk from the car park, the entrance of Owhiro bay, as only 4WD can drive through.

Our Phil & Teds double buggy was really useful today. We need this type on such off roads. It's quite popular in the UK but here in NZ, the original country of this buggy, most of the people are pushing this model. Of course in Malaysia, as same as in Japan, everybody looks at us when we are with the buggy!

I've been to seal watching in Canada before. On that occasion, I was on a small ship with other tourists and seals were floating in the sea poping out their head from the water. It was stormy yesterday in Wellington area and today seals were basking on rocks.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

よかったよかった。
ホームページがずいぶん更新されていた。

ホリデー中なんだね♪
生アザラシ~!見たい!

WalrusとSealの違いがわからない。
日本語でもわかんないけど。

ともかくよかった♪

Anonymous said...

Hi,

Its your friendly neighbourhood accountant. Good to see you are enjoying New Zealand.

The biggest and meanest looking seals I have seen were in Namibia on the Skeleton coast. These ones look quite sweet in comparison.

We all miss you in London. Mark returned from his honeymoon and Michael is getting married in Thailand next week. You started a trend!

Best regards,


AS