I love simplicity and silence. I enjoy taking photos of birds. I also enjoy drinking tea — green, white, yellow, but not black. I live at Waikawa Beach in New Zealand, which I love, and strive to be an actively decent human being. In 2025 I expect to move to Ruakākā near Whangārei. Apparently the bizarre is normal now. Almost 70, I'm super happy to be getting old — it means I'm not dead yet! Proudly independent. 100% human (she / her). I joined the MB community on 05 January 2018. Follow me on Micro.Blog at https://micro.blog/miraz .
One more on NZ history, at Kindle Loc 2625:
Contact [with] foreigners began with Abel Tasman in 1642, but so briefly, and then with such a long pause, that it really began again with the first voyage of Captain James Cook in 1769.
Source: Tangata Whenua: A History.