Auckland
Even though New Zealand is really great, one very troublesome factor is their complete lack of an indigenous ursine population. No bears at all! Although obviously I have improved that situation somewhat with my arrival. Tomorrow we will go off in search of whatever bear-like creatures or cassowary-like kiwis can be found.
Oh yeah, but i can tell you that the toilets here have a cool innovation that is environmentally more sound than the ones at home- you have the option of a half-flush or a full flush, thus saving a lot more water. So, you would only do a ful flush if you have just engaged in the activity to which this blog is devoted, and a half if you didn't have quite that much to do. Pretty cool.
And rustyangel has set up a mirror site for our pictures, which you can check here if you like: http://photos.design-culture.net/?album=adventures-my