 It's great when there is wildlife in the surf. At the time, I thought these fish were kahawai, but the stripes don't look right.
 Black-backed gulls fighting over fish scraps. The brown bird is a juvenile of the same species that also joined in the competition.
 This octopus was interested in the GoPro camera at first but I easily kept it out of reach and by the second day it didn't bother about it at all. It happily came out to feed and chased the shrimps and triplefin fishes away from the food by waving its arms. It investigated my feet a couple of times but grew bored with me after a week of daily visits. It readily took any shellfish I cracked for it but when I tried feeding it pieces of fresh fish, it initially took them but then gave them back a few minutes later.
 A family group showing the variability of variable oysercatchers. The bird at centre is the current season's "baby" flanked by its parents.
 Top photo, colour at rest. Bottom photo, four seconds later. This octopus accepted food from me each day but didn't interact further. It always grabbed at the GoPro camera with what seemed more like aggression than curiosity so after a couple of days I stopped using it. The missing arm might go some way to explaining it's overall tension.
 A high spring tide at twilight brought this normally elusive bird out into the open.
 The group of mixed pied and little shags seemed to greet the royal spoonbill. About five more spoonbills arrived to share the roost with the shags. The structure is a maimai - a hide used by duck hunters during the game-bird season that starts the first week of May.
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