Dunedin, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Nature on the Otago Peninsula
Dec 7, 2005 (13 photos)

... 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, South Island
Dec 17, 2004 (7 photos)

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 ...

Penguin kisses
Jan 8, 2007 (25 photos)

... 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 the ...

Dunedin
Apr 2, 2005 (2 photos)

... 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 a ...

Never Been this far from Home
Apr 16, 2007 (2 photos)

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 the ...

Goodbuy to the Brit :(
Feb 5, 2008 (10 photos)

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 ...

Seen Pingu and his mate!
Nov 8, 2008 (99 photos)

... 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 the ...

My penguin encounter
Apr 3, 2005 (12 photos)

... 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
Feb 21, 2005

... , 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 - "BBH" ...

Made in New Zealand
Dec 21, 2006 (3 photos)

... 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 to ...

Dunedin - Scotland of the South
Nov 25, 2003 (5 photos)

... see a few yards in front of us, as the rain lashed onto the windscreen. We had indeed arrived at New Zealand's 'Scottish City'. Dunedin is actually the Maori word for Edinburgh. Upon checking into Stafford Gables YHA we were informed that we would be ...

Penguins on the Peninsula
Apr 4, 2006 (5 photos)

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, ...

ppppick up a penguin
Jul 20, 2005 (6 photos)

... . 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 repaired.

A Final Farewell
Nov 6, 2004 (2 photos)

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 ...

Duck Shooting Season - "Help I'm a Duck"
May 2, 2004

... 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 really ...

Moving On
May 28, 2004

... 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 ...

Chapter 13: Happy Thanksgiving?
Nov 28, 2003 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

A Little Reminder
Mar 10, 2005 (8 photos)

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 a ...

A Wee Toon
Dec 22, 2006

... 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 ...

Turning 30
Mar 30, 2004

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 wanted ...

Leaving Dunedin
Jun 15, 2004

... 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, ...

Living the Kiwi way of life
Mar 25, 2004

... leaving the flat and walking for an hour to get to Penny's house was not a fun thought! However, it was Penny's last night in Dunedin, she's heading back to Canada soon and since we met in Tibet we've had so much fun together, so I couldn't not go. It ...

Seals on Beaches!
Dec 19, 2004 (9 photos)

... 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 ...

Real Life
Mar 15, 2004

... met in Thailand) just now and his really cool flatmates. Last week I went down to Invercargill for the day, saw some rare New Zealand reptiles that I can't remember the name of, tatura or something like that, which were really cool. I've also been to the ...

Exit Otago, Enter Exeloo
Dec 17, 2003 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Freaky-Deaky Friday
Apr 9, 2004

... in the world! (Yes, it is steeper than the one in San Francisco). Sheldon's poor little car would never have made it up the hill, so we had to walk! It was very steep but didn't take us long to get to the top, where we had great views all over Dunedin.

Back to Dunedin
Dec 21, 2006

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All work and lots of play!
Apr 3, 2004

Well I've been in Dunedin for 5 weeks now and I've been travelling for 10 months. It's amazing how quickly time goes. I've been working, trying to save, but going out too much to save anything. I blame it all on my work actually. Last Friday I was ...

Cheese and Penguins
Nov 29, 2005 (10 photos)

... . And we just paid $6 for some biscuits. But wow the environments great isn't it? Yeh, super. Trees, huh? Wow. Shame New Zealand has completely destroyed its Ozone layer and skin cancer is at an all time high. Nevermind, I'll buy some sunscreen. 5% ...

Its frickin' freezin' down here Mr Bigglesworth
Apr 9, 2005 (5 photos)

... live on the shores next to the town, and every evening you can sit and watch them waddling up the beach to their nests. Dunedin is the main town of the area. It is actually the Gaelic for Edinburgh and the Scottish links are very strong down here. Many ...