We drove to Invercargill for a small plane flight to Stewart Island. This is the largest island south of the South Island of New Zealand. It has places where the Kiwi can be seen night or day (or so we had been told and read- truth is there is one spotted during the day about twice a year). We chose not to go on the night walk as we did not want to get back between 1:30am-3:30am. Stewart Island’s one town and harbor are located on Halfmoon Bay. Its full time population is 300 people. Stewart Island’s 425,000 acres, (the size of Singapore), is primarily Rakiura national park (90%) and 5% is Maori. There are 275 miles of hiking trails on the island. We just walked around the town today. The man from our hotel told us he knows when to pick up visitors when he hears the airplane flying onto the island.