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There they have various eagles including Sarah , a magnificent golden eagle ; all sorts of owls including the cute little ground-nesting burrowing owl ( did you know that a 70 cm tall great horned owl weighs only half a kg or so , and its neck , which looks enormous , is only one cm thick inside all those feathers ) ; Snoopy the celebrity vulture ( remember the movie Shanghai Noon , where Jackie Chan is buried up to his neck in the sand and a vulture pecks his head ? The river is smooth and easy , but as we enter the sea the going becomes more challenging . Next year Brian came over again and we set out in the other direction , round the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula and then south . And the return journey is just as strenuous until you finally reach the downhill part . No problem sailing alone round the Pacific , he explained : he had US Navy charts that showed where and when the wind would be under 35 knots 99 % of the time , and he stuck to those .