Touring in Dunedin

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Yesterday we came back from Stewart Island and I am pleased to report that the crossing was much smoother. Still rough but definitely better. We then drove to Dunedin with a few photo stops along the way. Dunedin is a big student city and is supposed to be based on Edinburgh. The name Dunedin means Edinburgh in Celtic, apparently. My Scottish friend Elaine was very excited to be able to buy Irn Bru here.
This morning we visited the Cadbury's factory and took the tour. It was really cool. Thay have so so many more brands than we get back home so we felt duty bound to try as many as possible (Michael - you'd be in heaven). Many of these flavours will never be sent overseas so we only have a few more days to eat them all! The factory gave us lots of freebies to try though.
This afternoon we went to the Otago peninsular. Here is the only mainland Albatross nesting site of the in the world. They normally live on tiny, remote Islands, but a large colony live just near Dunedin. We saw 4 nesting adults with their chicks and an adult flying overhead. There wingspan is over 3m so pretty impressive. We also went watch for the rarest penguin species - the yellow-eyed penguin. I really enjoyed this as we watched them swim in from the sea and walk up the beach. It was great. There were loads of hides set up so we could watch them easily but they didn't seem that scared of us and we saw quite a few close up, just wandering around. There were also a few blue pengiuns in their nest boxes too.

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Photos

Otago Peninsula
Yellow-eyed penguin

Cadbury World
Mmmmmmm chocolate

Cadbury World (2)
Crunchie anyone?