CityView Bed and Breakfast Homestay Dunedin

... for bar work!!! the guide guy had to pour it for me ... hehehh!!!! hmmmm.... the hostel was great... small and homely... watched a few dvds there and LOST (which i missed so much!!!)... heheh to fill up the time when i didnt do much else!!! anyway sorry for the late catch up... im now bk in Melbourne... but there a few more blogs to add... so forgive the many blog emails!!!! k xxx

... Luckily it was low tide so we had a good look around. The trees were buried in a volcanic eruption that covered the forest in ash. The forest later sunk beneath the ocean. The silica in the ash combined with the sea water and impregnated the trees. All this was 160 million years ago! Eventually the wood turned to rock. We also saw some young Yellow-Eyed Penguins waiting for mum and dad to come back with their dinner. Yellow-eyed (Hoiho) penguins - After dinner we walked ...

... done with the boulders, we had lunch at a local beach restaurant and resumed our driving towards Dunedin and the Otago Peninsula. We made a few more stops on the way, the most notorious being the one at Shag Point. We knew nothing about the place, but were drawn to it by its ambiguous name, and were surprised to find a fairly large fur seal colony, this was our first seal sighting in New Zealand, and this was a breeding colony as there were many pups around. Besides the ...

... We really looked foward to dinner every night and always dressed up for it. It was like going on a date every night and really gave Barb and I quality time together.

The entertainment on board ship was really good with something for everyone and we saw incredible shows and comedians and magicians.

The only let down was DJ Bass at Skywalkers club played the same old music (70's and I ...

We woke this morning to fog everywhere. An announcement shortly before we were due to dock told us that the Port of Dunedin was closed, and we weren't going anywhere. The fog did start to lift, and eventually we have docked just now two hours late. That meant that we have missed our wildlife cruise, but we'll head into town and see if there is something else we can do.   Coming into Port Chalmers where we docked was stunning. With the fog ...

... say right now, im most excited about: north american powder worlds best food (including both candy and fast food) turning 21 over there and a white christmas Im sure this list will grow with every day i get closer. It should be good traveling with tim, alex, and lachlan. Interesting if nothing else. Sweet time to sleep. Tomorrow I head to auckland

... steam engines to take tourists on a scenic route through the mountains. The market was very good with lots of samples out and we bought some really good looking sausages for bangers and mash one night. After this we headed to the local library to make use of free internet to sort out our australian visas. Then we headed over to St Clair to find Mat and Lizzy's house. It was a lovely house in a quiet area and when we greeted the family we found ...

... in Woolworths in Gore, to see if they had any clearance CD's as I was bored with my ones now, hehehe, but I didn't want to pay for a latest release one. They suggested I went to a store called Warehouse. On the way, I saw an op shop (charity shop to you and me, or thrift store to my Canadian readers ;-) ) , now they were bound to have some cheap ones. They did, but they were all classical, hmmm not what I was thinking of. I went to Warehouse and just as I was about to give up and walk ...

... stiiliga säilitatud hostel, mis ilmselt kunagi oli mõnele suurele perele koduks. See oli nagu paljude magamistubadega kodumajutus. Perenaine oli kogu õhkkonna loomise detailideni paika pannud, mis oli väga "warm welcome". Sirvides külalisteraamatut, leidis sealt tervitusi ja tänusõnu paljudelt eri riikidest pärit turistidelt. Kahjuks eestlaste sissekandeid esmapilgul silma ei hakanud, aga järgmine kord võib selle sealt leida küll, sest tegime ise ka ...