Bonus Level: Stewart Island
Ferry at Bluff: Reunion with the Scotsman Kieran. We met near Wanaka. Meet two German girls from my town. Good to hear that dialect. Sea is rough. Waves crash the window. Too rough for my stomach. Stewart island is love at first sight. Fish some spotties for dinner. Cut them with a shell fragment. Camp off trail beyond Port William. Hear a Kiwi at night. Awake with the birds: Tuis and Kererus, Fantails and some new sounds. Is it the Kokako, which brings 10000$ to the one that can prove its existence? Catch a leather jacket and a wrasse for lunch. Shellfish as bait. Sit at Bungaree hut and stare at the waves. Oystercatchers and seagulls. Traces of deers and sealions. Camp in the forest. Wake up two times by what seems to be the sound of a small biped - as close as a meter. Can't see a thing. The sky pitch black as the forest floor. Later spot three deers in-between trees, gazing at me. Catch a bluecod and an even bigger wrasse near Christmas hut. Find a wreckage. Remove a thin