点评:This was the greatest experience and a highlight of our 7 weeks in NZ. We were staying in a bach on the peninsula, and our guide (Adrian) accommodated us by picking us up enroute to the park. Adrian was a great guide and very informative. The park was a bit busy that night with children on the trails (so a bit noisy) making for tougher kiwi spotting. Some invasive mammal control work on previous nights might have impacted the kiwis as well. But Adrian was able to put us in the right areas and we were lucky enough to see 3 northern brown kiwis - I had a close encounter with a very large female just a few feet away! Also, being outdoors folks from Canada, sneaking around in the bush in the dead of night is NOT something you do here (critters with teeth and claws abound!) so this was a super neat experience to hunt quietly for something at night. A moonless night offered us spectacular starry skies and full on milky way. If you're on the fence about doing this kind of tour - do it, you'll never regret or forget it! Kiwiness was great with email communications as well, and happy to accommodate pick-ups etc. Highly recommend!
翻译:这是我们在新西兰 7 周中最棒的体验,也是亮点。我们住在半岛上的小屋里,我们的导游(Adrian)在去公园的路上接我们。Adrian 是一位很棒的导游,知识渊博。那天晚上,公园里有点忙,小路上有很多孩子(所以有点吵),使得发现几维鸟更加困难。前几晚的一些侵入性哺乳动物控制工作可能也影响了几维鸟。但 Adrian 能够把我们带到正确的区域,我们很幸运地看到了 3 只北棕色几维鸟——我与一只非常大的雌性几维鸟近距离接触,就在几英尺外!此外,作为来自加拿大的户外活动爱好者,在深夜潜入灌木丛可不是你在这里能做的事情(长着牙齿和爪子的动物比比皆是!)所以这是一次非常棒的体验,可以在晚上安静地寻找东西。没有月亮的夜晚为我们带来了壮观的星空和满天的银河。如果您对参加这种旅行犹豫不决 - 那就去吧,您永远不会后悔或忘记! Kiwiness 的电子邮件沟通也很棒,并且很乐意提供接送服务等。强烈推荐!