Chocolate Penguins

The nights are cool, but we are still having beautiful sunny days -perfect for touring!

I have always associated Dunedin with Speights, Jeff Wilson and drunken students, but really it is so much more as we discovered on our tour there.

The first stop was the Cadburys Chocolate factory. This is always popular with the women on the tour,and the ladies from Thailand and Korea were excited as we arrived. We also had four me from Saudi Arabia with us and they were just as excited to visit the Chocolate factory.

Everybody enjoyed the tour very much and we all came out of the shop with lots of chocolate treats.

Baldwin street is the steepest street in the world, and this was next stop on our itinerary It was a hard walk to the top but it was worth it, we got some very nice photos.

After a quick lunch we left Dunedin and went to the peninsula to see some of Otagos famous wildlife. We were visiting the Yellow-eyed penguin colony but as we were a little early we had time to go to the end of the peninsula to see the Albatross. We could see many flying in, it was amazing.

We only saw three penguins but they were very cute. By the time we finished it was getting a bit cold and dark so we went back to Dunedin for a well deserved hot meal and cup of tea.

On Sunday some of us went out to see Larnach castle, while the rest of us went to tunnel beach. Tunnel beach is my favourite place to visit in Dunedin. It is little beach that you have to walk 30 minutes to get to, then go down a short tunnel. Its very private, and very beautiful. Well worth the visit.

All in all it was a very good trip. We were very tired when we got back to Christchurch, it was very hard to get up on Monday morning.

Next week, dolphins at Akaroa!