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 June 2024, Polly visited Elizabeth (age 9) and they went to the Coromandel Peninsula. Here’s what they got up to together…
I had a really good time with Polly. First, I made her a place to live and sleep while she was with us. I used a cardboard box to make a small cubby to live in on a stick. My dad found some material to make into a cosy pillow and a blanket to add to her cubby to make it super comfortable.
She enjoyed this cubby on a stick, but it was too big to take into the blanket caves we made so I turned her cubby into a swinging basket to sleep in while in the blanket fort I made with my dad, and also for in the car while we traveled from Auckland to Whiritoa.
On Thursday night, we drove to Whiritoa to spend two days at our Nana and Poppa’s beach house for Matariki.
When we got there we went straight to sleep, and the next morning I was ready to have some fun.
I took Polly to the playground with my brother. Polly went on the seesaw, climbing frame and slide with me.
She then had a turn by herself on the seesaw, swing and climbing poles.
We watched the sun go down on a beautiful day.
The next morning, at 5.30am, we got up to see Matariki. We were unable to see the Matariki stars, as it was too cloudy, but did see Orion’s Belt and also Jupiter. It was very cold out there in the morning so we went back to the beach house to go back to sleep.
It was so much fun having Polly come to stay and share Matariki with my family.
