{"id":462,"date":"2016-10-16T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.optimaltec.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2016-11-11T02:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T07:07:28","slug":"arriving-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimaltec.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/16\/arriving-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We came to New Zealand late at night. It was cold AND it was raining. The next day, luckily, it got warmer and it wasn&#8217;t raining. One of the first places that we went was Sandfly Bay. It is a bay with sea lions and penguins. On the way we saw a lot of sheep and beautiful scenery. When we came we needed to walk through a sheep pen. We tried to pet them but they kept running away from us. When we came to the sand, we saw a seal! It was big and very fat. I read on a sign that New Zealand Sea Lions are endangered. Dad almost got eaten by one (exaggeration!) but he didn&#8217;t because he climbed up a cliff. Even me and Evan practiced climbing a big cliff too in case we also get chased by a sea lion! Then mom spotted a white dot on the cliff. I looked through my binoculars and saw that the white dots were Yellow-eyed Penguins! We came close and the penguins posed for the pictures. I also found out that these penguins are very rare. 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