Sunday 5th November Laura - We spent a few hours today wandering around the tiny city of Oamaru and looking at it's limestone buildings. We were pleasantly surprised to find some line dancers prancing around down some side alley. Is this normal?! Amused and confused we pottered on to the art gallery. It was very small, but entertaining enough, especially as a couple of strange woman were amazed at a set of portraits and bought a $50 dollar catalogue of it. Apparently it was the best thing they'd ever seen, and they "thoroughly enjoyed it", even though they spent less than 10 minutes in the place! Quite odd. Anyway, as if the day wasn't exciting enough, it got very exciting in the evening. We drove to a nearby beach where the very rare yellow-eyed penguins have
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