Dunedin is considered
to be the Edinburgh of New Zealand. It
does have a Scottish Heritage and a lot of the older buildings are stone so I
guess that is the reason for the comparison.
Yesterday we went to
the Botanical Gardens and although it is fall, the gardens were quite lovely
and we saw some nice roses.We also went to see the steepest street int the world.
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| At the Dunedin Botanical Gardens |
We then drove out to the Otago Peninsula. There is a colony of Royal Albatross and
another of Yellow Eyed Penguins I wanted to see. When we got out there it was socked in with
fog and we wouldn’t have been able to see the albatross flying, so we made
bookings to go back this afternoon.
Today we went to the
Art Gallery in the morning and then drove out to the Otago Peninsula and stopped
at Larnach Castle, the only castle in New Zealand. We had lunch there and then went on a tour of
it. It reminded us a bit of Casa Loma
but is in a spectacular setting.
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| Larnach Castle |
We went onto the
Royal Albatross Center. It was quite a
walk up to the viewing area but they had a scooter Lois could use. This colony is the only one in the world that
is on mainland so people are able to observe the birds – other colonies are on
isolated islands. The Royal Albatross
has a wing span of 3 meters. After that
we went to see the Yellow Eyed Penguins.
This was at a small operation run by a family and they have a penguin
hospital. It was a fair hike to see them
so Lois wasn’t able to do that part so she waited at the center while I did it. There are only 4000 Yellow Eyed Penguins in
the world – 1000 in New Zealand and the rest on Stewart Island and other island
between there the Antarctic.
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| Royal Albatross |
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| Yellow Eyed Penguin |
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