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#Spotted on a Boxing Day road trip in Aotearoa #newzealand

A woman (20s?) is hitchhiking on a daisy strewn stretch of road. She's wearing a safari hat, pantaloons and bare feet. A car full of women with packs in the back pulls over. Grinning she gets in.

A busker (20s) in flowing clothes with a bohemian beard is strumming a guitar and singing softly on a public stage in a tiny, empty park. His audience is a solitary seagull, who is standing on one foot and looks suspiciously like a music critic. Busker is totally chill about this.

A small human (5?) sitting in a cafe. All around her adults are talking of meditation retreats and what type of pizza they're going to order. But not small human. She's colouring in a picture of a pony with meticulous detail, completely centered, completely in the zone.

A woman (20s?) with vivid blue hair and an intense air is talking to another (20s?) with Pre-Raphaelite flowing locks and a kind smile. Blue Hair Woman says "We will get coffee and find the light. I HAVE to draw you."

At a spotless public loo a jetlagged American tourist (50s?) leaves a cubicle with her pants still undone. She looks at the waiting queue in horror and says "Oh no. I'm so tired. I thought I was home!" A local says kindly "Don't worry Darl, we've all been there."

Any typos spotted in this post were spontaneously manifested by this weka who understands the power of no. If spotted please marvel from a distance and don't mind the pang of being bird snubbed.
You're kind of looking at the manifestation of "no" in the form of a bantam chicken sized brown wood hen that is walking away from you down a gravel path in a very verdant patch of green bush. The weka is looking slightly back at you as if to say, "I disdain Instagram and all photographic nonsensery" and you have no choice but to accept its choice. While looking at this picture, imagine this disdain coming to you while birds are chirping all over the place, cicadas are whirring and a pack of Spanish tourists around the bend are talking excitedly about lunch.