Fantastic Beasts

My fantastic beast call the Brisban Burner.
It is 50cm long amd is a smooth camouflage orange colour with 2 legs in front, each ending in a poisonous pointy claw and one hopping leg at the back with a retractable pincer.
It has a pointy face with 2 eyes, 2 nostrils and one mouth with no teeth and a pointed snake-like tongue.
If it is scared it can become invisible and it can liquify its bones so it can fit through any gap.
It eats grass using its tongue to wrap around the stalks and break them off.
It likes hot temperatures and lives in the hollows of trees in Australia.
Its poison mixed with Phoenix tears can make any human immortal.

Weird and Wonderful

My cactus plant needs 3ml of water a day.

There are 365 days in a year (366 in a leap year)

To work out how much water my cactus plant needs over a year I X 365 by 3

365X3

300X3=900

60X3=180

5X3=15

900+180+15=1095

My cactus plant will need 1095ml of water in a year

Fabulous Ferns

Three New Zealand sports teams with the word 'fern' in their name are:

1. Tall Ferns (Basketball)
Link to Photo   Basketball New Zealand   TALL FERNS BEAT DPR of KOREA AT ASIA CUP

2. White Ferns (Cricket)
Link to Photo Owner of photo: Newsie Photographer: sportsfile/sebdaly

3. Silver Ferns (Netball)
Link to Photo   The Hits   Photo / Getty Images

My favourite team uniform with the name 'fern' in it is the White Ferns their uniform looks like the Black Caps.

Giants Among Us

I would like to visit Tane Mahuta because it reminds me of 'The Faraway Tree' which I read when I was little - it was a huge tree too.
I also like that kauri were perfect for ship masts and building.
I like forests (because of Rangers Apprentice) so I think I would like the walk to Tane Mahuta.
Also 1250-2000 years old is VERY old, it makes me think the tree is really special.

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Ice, Ice Baby

North and South

Hokitika

I live in Hokitika which is in the South Island of New Zealand.

It is a small to medium sized tidy town which is on State Highway 6 so it has a lot of cool shops for the tourists that travel up and down the Coast.

Hokitika always looks clean, and it is a friendly beachside town.

It is at the mouth of the Hokitika river which is usually a sparkling blue but in bad weather turns angry and grey.

I enjoy running on the grey sand and smooth stones of the beach, playing rugby on the green grass of the park and visiting the cian, diamond sparkling gorge.


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The legend of New Zealand

My top 3 fun facts about New Zealand are:

1.  Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise because it is 496.3 kilometers away from the International Date Line.

2.  New Zealand was once governed as part of the territory of New South Wales and later a part of Australia.

3.  It is one of the three countries in the world that has two official national anthems of equal standing.  The first is God Save the Queen and the other is God Defend New Zealand.