peanut and violet

sam and i drove around waiheke island. on the far end (from the auckland side) is an area called stony batter. stony batter is a series of tunnels and old bunkers that were built and outfitted for wwii but were never actually used (as there was never really anything to use them for). when you go out to stony batter you can tour the old tunnels and there is a small museum with old guns and photos and newspaper articles about the area. on our drive around the island we hadn't intended to do the tunnel tour but when we got to the free museum we were greeted by 7 of the friendliest sheep in the world (rose, peanut, violet and others i can't remember). they walked right up, like dogs, wanting to be pet. they didn't pester us for food or anything, they were just super content to lean against us and nudge our hands with their heads.

so we had to do the tour. and we were really glad we did.