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Kaikoura stricken

10,000 Birds

Like most Kiwis I was shocked by the pair of earthquakes that laid Christchurch low in 2010 and 2011. One of the ships helping the stricken town is the USS Sampson, the first US ship to visit New Zealand since the 1980s. Kaikoura is New Zealand’s finest birding destination, and seeing it brought low is a terrible blow.