Kea, Otoko River

A mad kea was hanging around the last gorge of the Otoko. For the whole time we watched it, it refused to fly away... or stay upright. It scampered from one branch to another hanging upside down like a bat.

The last obstacles on the Otoko included more waist deep wading, a forest of stinging nettle, sand flies, dead cows... and then it began to rain.



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