Birdwatching - Kea alpine parrots
Not long past Forest Burn we came across two juvenile Keas preening themselves and each other only a few metres from the track, on a small spur where the south arm of Lake Te Anau made a splendid backdrop. Not at all afraid, they let us get really close, and we must have spent fifteen or twenty minutes photographing them - I took 20 photos and Camilla used nearly an entire roll of film. (My first camera battery ran out here, so I spent the rest of the walk hoarding the second.)
