Yellow House Bed & Breakfast Dunedin

... internal assessment (quizzes, work in-between exams) here, mainly a midterm and a final. 80% is an A but the failure rate is higher.

On Wednesday night, saw Bruno. I will just say that I couldn't see half of the movie because my eyes were full of tears from laughing.
Thursday, went to Sandfly Bay and saw sea lions and yellow-eyed penguins (the rarest penguins in the world). The proportions of the landscape were ...

... on the landmark post myself.. ;o))... we also stop to take a pic of the steepest street in the world.... yes there is someone out there in charge of determining such thing... I am amazed and wonder how they came up with this... have they gone round the whole world checking every steep street to make sure this statement is right?!... ;o) but that would be the scientist in me thinking this way.... We get ...

... for these birds and we were fortunate to see three on their nests with their chicks. The day was pretty clear and so the views from around the peninsula were stunning. We also drove to Port Chalmers, which is where the first ship left New Zealand with refrigerated lamb back in 1882. (see we have been paying attention and retaining some info!). Gill having avoided Baldwin Street, bravely made it uphill to a flagstaff ...

Spent last night in a campsite by Lake Tekapo, not sure that having campers all around us, is for us so hoping to try a something a little more secluded to night. Managed a pleasant walk up a hill over looking the lake,a few pictures of the magnificent views. Good drive past Mount Cook and then onward back to the coast.

... Alehouse. We only asked for the snack menu but were greeted with an enormous bowl of wedges and a loaf of garlic bread! Not that we're complaining... In the evening, a family staying at the camp were having a BBQ and invited us to join them. After some delicious burgers, we ended up down at the pigpen, feeding the pigs, Spring and Blossom, and the piglets (who remain untitled as they are due to be made into sausages and / or bacon) the leftovers before it ...

... sadly that there was still no-one on the beach to show off my rock mounting prowess to, when all of a sudden, the wind started. And I do mean all of a sudden - one minute it was just the usual beachy breeze, then it was like someone flicked a switch and it was gale force. At first I was very taken with the effect the wind had on the bigger waves further out - even as they tried to come in, the wind was blowing them back, resulting in a pretty spray of, er ...

... forest. Neither could we take, as the water was high. We could have taken our shoes off. We could have kept our shoes on and just got on with it and had an adventure. We didn't though. I don't know why when I come to think of it now. I don't think we had a deadline to be in Dunedin. I don't think the routes were particularly dangerous. But we both just thought, "we'll come back and explore it properly another day". Because we know, we will be back. To New Zealand. It ...

... lagt op viser det desværre ikke helt optimalt - tror man sku' ha' været der! Jeg har stadig ikke fået internet hjemme i min egen lejlighed, men er nu så heldig at have fået adgang til bibliotekets trådløse netværk. Og her er fa'me opvarmet, sweet...! Vi skrives ved. Håber alle har fundet ud af at modtage en e-mail når jeg har lavet en opdatering - og ikke synes at det er alt for besværligt at skulle oprette en profil her på siden... Ciao!

... back on the stray bus and heading south to Milford Sound. I had been hoping to go diving there, as the run off from the rain makes the water darker, allowing deep sea life to live nearer the surface, including things you can never normally see withing recreational diving limits. Sadly it was closed for the winter and I ended up on a boat full of tourists in the pouring rain! Milford is definitely very pretty but I didn't really feel it had the wow factor I ...

... up supposedly the steepest street in the world. While I can’t attest to the truth of that assertion what I can say is I had to put the car down into first gear to get to the top of it. South of the city the beaches of St. Clair and St. Kilda were providing a good swell and a surprisingly large number of surfers were out in the line-up. I’m sure the water down here doesn’t get close to warm until at least January so I stayed within the comfortable confines ...