Found my true vocation - at last - in Oamaru!
I hope you don't find this blog boring. The intention was to recall tales of interesting, and hopefully funny, adventures and people but somehow it seems to have morphed into a travelogue. I think thats cos we've spent the last 3 months in countries that, whilst new and informative to us, are quite similar in culture to home.
Still, thank you for sticking with us and reading this inane drivel in ever-increasing numbers. I'll try and make it more interesting.
We watched a bird man competition in Oamaru, 20 contestants, mainly dressed as superman, chucking themselves off a plank on the pier into the freezing harbour to be fished out by two divers. It was so windy, the sea at one side was doing a great impersonation of rain. Don't be fooled by the shorts and T-shirts. Oh man, it was cold!
Jim had to get on his soap-box to complain. I left him to it!
Leaving Oamru behind we headed down the coast, stopping briefly to admire the cylindrical Moeraki boulders by way of a private path down to the beach, for which privilege you are meant to pay $2. We didn't.
Over moors with low, grey skies and domineering mountains. It looked just
like Scotland. Down a steep, steep hill and into.... Dunedin. We were in Scotland!
Dunedin is where Scottish settlers landed, Dunedin is the original name for Edinburgh. It is windy, hilly, very, very pretty and, probably our favourite city so far in New Zealand. There's a Princes Street and George Street just like i the original model. There was friendly people, fab shops and great restaurants. Jim had another hair cut, I went T-shirt shopping, we took an architectural tour and visited the Royal Albatross colony on the spectacular Otago peninsula - which comes complete with a castle, Larnach, the only one in New Zealand, funnily enough!
Bit reluctant to leave here, we had great craic with Chris who owned the motel. But the pull of rain and mist was too strong to resist!!! On to Fiordland (I know it doesn't look right but thats how they spell it here)
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