Polly Pekapeka (our KCC Mascot) is looking for adventure, so she’s off visiting KCCers around Aotearoa – and beyond. Follow all her adventures out and about in nature HERE.
In April 2024, Polly visited Josh (age 7) in the Hawke’s Bay. Here’s what they got up to together…
Polly and I had an amazing trip to Pekapeka Wetlands this week! It was so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so cool!!!!!
We saw these huge and not-so-big eels! We weren’t sure if they were longfin or shortfin eels. Can you tell?
We (as in me, my brothers, and dad) saw dozens of welcome swallows!!!! It was probably the coolest sight ever! They were all flocking and it was incredible how they could all fit in the wetland’s space.
I thought this day couldn’t get any better when we saw the most popular wetland bird sanctuary. There were swans, herons (me and dad are still arguing whether we saw a reef heron or a white-faced heron), ducks, and I thought I saw a pūweto (not to be confused with pūkeko) a.k.a a spotless crake!!!! They are very secretive birds, so no one knows how many there are!
There were towering reeds everywhere!!!! My brother, Mitch, spotted quite a lot of bird nests in the giant reeds!
