Tag: Michael Hawkey

  • Perhaps unsurprisingly, New Zealand being a country of the Commonwealth, Aucklands main road in the CBD is Queen Street. During the week, a hustling and bustling street, lined with various retail, food and entertainment shops. Its also the main street for any wider Auckland parades, graduation walks, and protest walks. An early development in Aucklands…

  • Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away If you can use some exotic booze There’s a bar in far Bombay Come on and fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away Come fly with me, let’s float down to Peru In llama land there’s a one-man band And he’ll toot his flute for…

  • Same as yesterday, some more interesting facts: The fastest butterflies fly at 19kph(12mph) Many butterflies can taste with their feet to test suitability for laying eggs. Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)  have been found Butterflies like to drink from mushy slices of banana, oranges and watermelon  

  • Work found me at Butterfly Creek today for an all staff meeting. After the meeting, myself and a few other staff took the opportunity to go through their butterfly enclosure (and small farmyard). I’ve been once before, so in preparation brought along my Nex 5N with a few different lens’. Unfortunately, whether due to the…

  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron