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The second day in Dunedin we went out to the Otago Peninsula. It was a very sunny day and the harbour area looked very nice. We went out to the end where there is an albotross and Penguin sanctuary but you had to pay to go in so after trying to get a look around the sides for free we went to another beach called Sandfly Bay where there were supposed to be Penguins. We parked at one end and walked to a hide at the other side of the beach. There were lots of sea lions out on the beach that we had to walk past and got really close to them. We sat in the hide and after about 15 minutes a penguin showed up. Thinking that he would be the first of many we stuck around watching him for about an hour before the second one turned up, it was good to see them though! On the way back we had to walk between a group of fighting bull sealions and one sat on his own. We chose to go nearer the one on his own but got a bit too close which upset him and he started chasing us. Vicky, always cool in these situations ran off in the direction of the other sea lions but after a bit of shepherding we got away from it. We did laugh.
We then went to camp at Lake Waihola a bit south of Dunedin. The next day we headed over to the Fiordland area where it had apparantly not rained for 6 weeks. We arrived in Te Anau and it was raining. We couldn't see much of the mountains and were worried it would be the same the next day when we wanted to go out on Milford Sound. We decidied to book a Sea kayak trip instead of boats so that even if we couldnt see it would be fun. We then went for a bit of a walk along the Kepler Track, where lots of trees had fallen over in the earthquake.
Luckily it was sunny the next day for the kayaking. The guide picked us up from the campsite and drove us to Milford. The road there has some amazing views but gets very icy so we were glad not be driving the van. We were given lots of warm kit to put on and then set off in a tandem kayak. It was a really good way to see the Sound and we could get really close to the seals that live there. We were out for about 4 hours, including lunch sat out in the middle.
Today we are in Queenstown. We arrived quite early and as it was sunny again we went for two walks, one around Mt. Cricton and one up Queenstown Hill where there were really good views of mountains all around. Queenstown looks very spectacluar but everything is very expensive here so we are moving on to Wanaka tomorrow after doing a bit of luging!
Stu (and Vicky)
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