Some cool pictures from last week

fungus can seriously look like ANYTHING.

 A pod of orcas swimming past campus!

 Tall

Farmland, pretty in a different way, but this is a more accurate picture of what the majority of New Zealand looks like (although Lonely Planet would have you believe otherwise)

 So fat! That toadstool growing off the side was big enough to set my nalgene on

I love this. After our first crazy hard day of frogging, we camped at the top of the mountain, and this was the view out over the Hunuas when we first woke up the next morning

These boots were made for hikin

First big hike! We hiked 11km up the Hunua mountain range, reaching an elevation of 440m (~3ft in a meter, pretty high!) it took all morning. I though I was going to be lagging towards the back, but I was totally fine! Stayed mostly in the middle of the pack, even walked up front a couple times and was a main singer in a lot of our trail songs :) Then in the afternoon, we went straight to a perfect sandy beach a couple miles away and went swimming and did some drawing activities with clipboards on the shore (now that I've dropped out of regular school and am enrolled in the Hippie Academy of Peace and Love, a lot of our homework involves coloring... I'm sorry, "understanding the importance of reflection")

Finding out just how waterproof all our hiking boots actually are

Picture of Morgan and her awesome camera taking pictures of the same stuff I am shooting... New plan: take no more pictures and just steal all of Morgans

Don't see trees like this on American mountains!

Heyyy hiking group! 

This giant picture frame is a convenient piece of art on this beach :)