Bolders and Penguins - The East Coast Adventure.

Trip Start Aug 15, 2006
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Trip End Mar 15, 2006


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Saturday, November 11, 2006

At a steady pace (thats all we can manage!) we cruised down to Timaru for our first night stopover. We decided to stay in a holiday park for the first night, so we could test the electrics and gain some confidence with our little van...... We survived the first night!

Mark informed us that many of the cool things to do in NZ are actually free, and recommended that we take in the rather obscure Moeraki Boulders. These large spherical boulders are just south of Oamaru. There are about 30-40 in total, varying in size and they make a very strange sight to behold.

NZ has a wide variety of Marine life to offer but the main species of interest to us was the Penguin - having not quite had our fix in Argentina! This time we really did get lucky. Sat up high in a viewing gallery (bizarrely resembling Torpoints stand!)we witnessed around 200 Blue Penguins come up to the bay and do their stuff. After the viewing we drove with care to ensure hit any as they lined the road in search of nesting sites.
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