
150 Years of Polish Settlement in New Zealand
150 Years of Polish Settlement in Southern New Zealand…….My Involvement
I know it’s an odd subject for our blog on Stewart Island, so perhaps a little background …..
150 Years of Polish Settlement in Southern New Zealand…….My Involvement
I know it’s an odd subject for our blog on Stewart Island, so perhaps a little background …..
And odd heading, but we are really dry. Stewart Island is considered temperate rainforest., And we do get dry periods, But I’ve never seen an October so dry
Ulva Island visit. Lots of Saddlebacks, yellowheads, tui, bellbirds and robins. And we found the first of our orchids starting to develop blooms. Dancing Spider Orchids are our first to appear.
And one of the signs of spring was our first Red Admiral butterfly. We generally don’t get many in our garden at Sails Ashore, but they are a colourful addition to the spring blooms
Looking out our kitchens bay window this morning onto a frost lawny, an air temperature of 4 degrees after an overnight low of 2 degrees its great to think spring (official spring anyway)
First Snow of the Winter for Stewart Island. And I hope the last. I do NOT like snow at all.
We are now a few days into winter at Sails Ashore, though apart from a handful of miserable days it does not really seem like winter.
Since we’ve commissioned our off grid power supply at Sails Ashore I’ve had several Islanders ask how it was going