Snodgrass Road

We've been in Westport for four days now and feel fairly settled in.  Work this week consists of orientation, and is quite straightforward;  we have even been able to leave a bit early.  Out of the four days in our new town, we have had 2 1/2 days of heavy rain --- so much that Eric feels he's seen more rain in these last few days than in the whole previous year in Colorado.  This evening the rain let up, and we took a stroll down our rural little lane, with the unfortunate name of Snodgrass.  We are only 1 mile out of town, but on the other side of the Orowaiti River,  It's very rural, and we had fun meeting the local animals, wild and not-so-wild.
You know you are in New Zealand when you have sheep across the road. The bird life on the estuary side of the road is very rich, the photo above is a Pied Stilt and we have seen herons, oyster catchers and western Wekas.