Despite Tim having a stinking cold, we drove down to Dunedin for the long weekend (Queen's Birthday) and breaking with tradition, we checked into a luxury apartment, complete with double hydrotherapy spa bath. We had been planning this jaunt for a long while, as we only have showers in our own apartment and going more than a year without a bath was proving to be irksome. The weather forecast for the weekend was for a "big chill", and indeed we have been having some unseasonably cold weather over the last month. On the way down we stopped for lunch on a beach, just south of Oamaru and revisited Shag Point where there's a resident yellow-eyed pengiuns, NZ fur seals and, as indicated by the name, plenty of spotted and black shags. On the Sunday, we drove
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