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Dunedin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dunedin, New Zealand
Nature on the Otago Peninsula
This is a top pick! ... walking towards a seal colony, where pups were being born daily. I've certainly seen my fair share of seals since arriving in New Zealand, but these pups were the smallest ones I'd encountered. It was lovely to see a mother sleeping on the rocks with her ...
Dunedin
This is a top pick! ... Rocks (Aslan's Camp in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,) Omaru and the Moreaki Boulders we arrived in Dunedin once again impressed by New Zealand. Out into Dunedin, we started at the excellent Otago Museum. And then we went to Cadbury's ...
Penguin kisses
This is a top pick! ... like kingfishers. We parked at the top of a steep hill leading down to the beaches where, hopefully, we would encounter some of New Zealand's rarer wildlife. First sighting was a one-year old Hooker's sea lion, still looking rather pup-like as he lazed on ...
Dunedin
This is a top pick! ... it sounded like a good laugh so I got here to book me on it as well and we arranged to meet up outside the information center Dunedin is supposedly based on the layout of Edinburgh, but as I have never been there I can't really say, but it did look like ...
Dunedin, South Island
This is a top pick! Well, what can we say about Dunedin! It is supposed to be the Edinburgh of the South (that's the very far south, not England!) but it is blatantly nothing like it! However, it could be mistaken for any average grey UK city, which isn't exactly a good ...
Never Been this far from Home
This is a top pick! Well.. we arrived in Dunedin and once again must say that although it was a nice enough wee town, we weren't too taken in by it. We did however, walk to the top of Baldwin Street (the steepest street in the world which was quite cool and then we took ...
Goodbuy to the Brit :(
This is a top pick! Kiwi state of mind is probably as chilled as you can get without the use of drugs. So nice is everyone, I even met couple of friendly Brits over here:) Matt actually shared a ride with me through Milford Sound and the Catlins. Sad he is gone now. His ...
Alice And The Chocolate Factory
This is a top pick! ... geological phenomena available to climb on top of, run across, and crawl inside of? Awesome. On that high note, we continued on to Dunedin while eating cherries and listening to music. We got there just in time to sign up for one of the last Cadbury ...
My penguin encounter
This is a top pick! ... for the penguin reserve-give that man a knight hood. Here's a little history and information on the YEP: The YEP in unique to New Zealand and is the only member of the Megadyptes Genus and is one of the rarest of the worlds 17 penguin species. By the ...
Clip Clop Clip Clop
This is a top pick! ... , including briefly on the beautiful beach, I am slightly better...but not much.... Drive onto Christchurch, the most English of New Zealand's cities, with street names like "Gloucester", "Hereford", "Manchester" etc, and stay in a cheap hostel - ...
ppppick up a penguin
This is a top pick! ... . We saw 4 of them in the end. They have a distinctive yellow mark above the eyes thus the name of yellow eyed pengiuns. Figures really doesn't it. From Oamaru we made our way to Dunedin to camp for the night and to get a windscreen chip ...
Made in New Zealand
This is a top pick! ... the bored looking receptionist. Dunedin is well known for a number of things, or at least it is in New Zealand since I didn't have a scooby beforehand, including those bloody Himalayan streets, but it was the Cadbury World Factory we were keen ...
Seen Pingu and his mate!
This is a top pick! ... from Scotland, Rebecca from Northern Ireland and Harrison from the US. It was decided to go out for a few bevvies tonight, so we hit Dunedin with full force. We hit a 70's bar, a Drum & Bass club, a traditional style pub and a Sports Bar. It was at ...
Penguins on the Peninsula
This is a top pick! When you hear the jokes about the amount of sheep there are in New Zealand you might not think it so funny when you actually see for yourself. The journey down from Christchurch to Dunedin in the south passed through endless fields of, you guessed it, ...
Am I in Europe?
This is a top pick! Traveled to Dunedin today on the East Coast of New Zealand and the drive there was nice, a lot of dry plateaus and rocks, and scattered lakes. Lot of sheep etc, but that's pretty standard for NZ, so wasn't too surprising. Got into Dunedin relatively ...
A Little Reminder
This is a top pick! We've spent the last couple of days in the city of Dunedin. The first night was spent in the ever popular 'Top 10', the rest of the time has been spent here at the 'Leith Valley Touring Park' right up in the hills. We moved after Sinead and Chicken got ...
Cos I’m Three, Three Falling.....
This is a top pick! ... no freecamping options, we therefore had to continue the drive to get cash and petrol. By this stage we were only about 100km from Dunedin so headed onwards despite our vow to slow down. We reached Dunedin and headed for the I-site to find out about free ...
Go Highlanders!!
This is a top pick! ... being a non-drinker. It was a pretty good tour of a legendary local business that combined beer making insight with the history of New Zealand. After pulling some pints, the Princess wanted to do a quick trip up the Otago Peninsula to see the rare Royal ...
A Final Farewell
This is a top pick! Left Queenstown and it was hot and sunny, arrived a few hours later in Dunedin, via a huge ice cream in Lawrence, to grey skies and not much heat. Ah well, headed out to the pub to catch up with Nicola and Ryan, I can't believe it's been 5 months since I ...
Chapter 13: Happy Thanksgiving?
This is a top pick! ... intervals. All my photos, of course, look identical, and I'm starting to suffer from scenery overkill after a few weeks in New Zealand. We saw some interesting wildlife, at least, including many seals and one rare Fiordlands Crested Penguin. For all I ...
Duck Shooting Season - "Help I'm a Duck"
This is a top pick! ... a walk around the botanic gardens and fed the ducks. The weather was fantastic, really hot and believe me that's really uncommon for Dunedin! I'll be around here for another month, still working, so I may not update again for a while, unless something ...
What You Are Seeing Is Happening Now
This is a top pick! ... draws us along its weaving inner coastline. The lowering sun does spectacular things to Otago Harbour and the unsettled land north of Dunedin. A scant 20 km in length, the peninsula seems a lot longer, given the lack of any straight road, either along ...
Moving On
This is a top pick! ... for off. We had a few things to pick up before we left and were at the shops for 9am. Both of us having been in New Zealand for a number of months we were surprised to find that the shops didn't open until 10am. Had I really not been up before that time ...
Seals on Beaches!
This is a top pick! ... to bed last night I didn't have the faintest idea that I would be waking up and doing this moments later. Why does New Zealand continually exceed my expectations? Unfortunately, I didn't manage to take enough pics or anything really worthy, but this is ...
I've got a Golden Ticket
This is a top pick! ... back at college in a coffee shop just off campus. Our first activity was a tour of Cadbury World, the chocolate factory in Dunedin. It was sort of neat seeing behind the scenes, and especially getting free chocolate, but it was still just a factory. They ...
Exit Otago, Enter Exeloo
This is a top pick! ... the sites were returned to their original natural state, I'm not sure it matters too much. We drive the morning through archetypal New Zealand landscape, sheep like lice on the green hillsides. Our early arrival in Dunedin gives time for a tour of the ...
Turning 30
This is a top pick! Well I'm now officially old - or so I'm told! I had a really nice birthday. It was a warm and sunny day, the only one we've had here in weeks. I started off the day with pancakes and muffins - yummy, but gave me a sore tummy! In the afternoon I ...
Leaving Dunedin
This is a top pick! ... it with about a dozen american high school students. We also took a drive up to Signal Hill where we had views all over Dunedin. On Monday night Claire and I went out for dinner with Ryan and Nicola, afterwards I went round to say farewell to Clare, ...
A Wee Toon
This is a top pick! ... of the south island. With the weather not playing along again today spent some time indoors at the Otago Museum, Dunedin's most visited attraction appearing even more busy today with everyone having the same stay-dry idea. Dunedin is ...
