Dunedin

4/5/09 13 °C

We woke up and our first reaction was “Oh well there goes the weather!”. It was ugly outside and there was no sign of the sun anywhere. But before long, the super heavy fog lifted to reveal another beautiful day. Today was also the first day of testing out the van’s shower. Chrissy learned super fast that it doesn’t take much to use up all the water (plus hot water) and Tom learned not to let Chrissy go first. Don’t panic just yet, we both managed to get mostly showered and cleaned before we ran out of water!!

Today was a driving day and Chrissy’s first day of driving! WAHOO!! Lucky for her, she got to drive through that heavy fog. After what seemed like forever, we eventually arrived at the Moripaki (??) Boulders. These boulders are spherical shaped and plunked down on a beach, which makes for a great story of dinosaur marbles. We didn’t time our visit very well though as the tide JUST came in so we made do by scuttling alongside the edge of the cliff to get just close enough to the boulders for some pictures. This resulted in several yelps from Chrissy as the ocean came a bit close for comfort. Afterwards, we walked back to the van via the sheep field, the sheep that turned out to be very skittish, hid amongst the grass to avoid detection. As we have now seen multiple different types of animals, a brief list will be compiled:
-Sheep (which have 1 of 4 names attached: Fred, Baba, Sanchez, Salsa)
-Goats
-Donkeys
-Cows
-Dead possums (bonus points are given apparently!)

Getting back on the road, we headed towards Dunedin. This was a long and boring ride, which resulted in seeing lots of double decker sheep buses. And the NZ equivalent of greyhound also operates as a double decker! The road into Dunedin was steep and windy which made for an interesting ride. Eventually we made it into Dunedin!!! First stop: FOOD!!!

We hit up our favourite place (Pak N’ Save) where we proceeded to pick up some depleted items and another reusable grocery bag for Chrissy. We also popped into the Warehouse, which is the NZ equivalent of Wal-Mart. After we spent some monies, we headed off towards the campground. The Dunedin Holiday Park is nice but very crowded and not our cup of tea. We are only here so we can repower, do some laundry, and get out ASAP!!! Chrissy is also very annoyed that it costs $3 to do a load of laundry and $3 for 30mins in the dryer which doesn’t even begin to dry things out. Hence the van now resembles a Laundromat with clothing strung about everywhere.

Tom has also befriended the resident kitten and was busy playing with it all evening. We deliberated stealing the cat but thought better however the highlight was on his return from collecting the pathetically dried clothing, he was ambushed by said cat.

Tomorrow we are heading off to Queenstown after stopping in at the Cadbury Factory for chocolate and the Speights Brewery for beer. Delicious combination!! Talk to you all in a few days!!s

Posted by tc2009 02:24 Archived in New Zealand Tagged boating