Penguin Rescue Upate

morning at the lighthouse

​Hello friends and family
This started out as a quiet week. Elaine and I celebrated Mother’ day with dinner at the Tavern – yummy as always! I took a load of rocks to the Bluffs on Monday and picked the pears in the Hampden orchard. There are still a few more apples to ripen.

3 shags

​The team came out on Tuesday, and we saw only a handful of penguins at home. I got an email from Mt Cook Salmon who will be donating some smolt to us which is awesome, the team at the OPERA will store it for us until the freezer is repaired.

evening at the lighthouse

​I went to town on Wednesday – no snow to be seen, but a good day to get my Covid jab. On Thursday, we found Mrs K18 at home again and she had taken a blow to the head and needed some help. She is responding well. 

Tiny native broom, growing in the lounge

​Friday was busy. In the morning it was the Hui for the reserve management group. They were very empathetic towards the plight of the penguins. After a delicious lunch, it was off to the tavern to farewell Peter Whitehead who died recently. He had been a great help to Penguin Rescue by making trap boxes and little penguin cages.

In the evening, I went to Hampden to hear Tamsin talk about her voyage through the North West passage. It was a great talk – a fitting highlight of a day when I did more socialising than the rest of the week put together!
Have a great week!
Rosalie