Blogs from Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 10

Finally I have had the time to take some amazing pictures of the birds in the Botanical Garden's Aviary. Over the course of the last few months, I had had many visits to the birds. There were two parrots that I especially liked to visit as they spoke German and were very talkative. Additionally, there is this one bird who looked like he was born from a rainbow with a full range of colourful feathers.... read more

Dunedin (uitspraak: denieden) Tussen All Day Bay en Dunedin reden we naar The Mouraki Boulders. Dit zijn ronde stenen dat gevormd werd in de zee (60 miljoen jaar oud). Dunedin zelf hebben we niet echt bezocht. We waren uiteraard weer op zoek naar free wifi! :-) We gingen de 1e dag naar het Public Art Centre. Deze is gratis te bezoeken! De tentoonstelling viel wel mee, gelukkig dat we er niet voor moesten betalen. Gans de galerij door heb je free wifi. Tijdens ons bezoek stuikten we op het middenplein dat vol stond met tenten. Betoging tegen het kapitalisme! Daar kan ik het alleen maar mee eens zijn! In de namiddag gingen we richting Otago Peninsula. Het eilandje dat grenst aan Dunedin. Otago is een zéér mooi eiland! Alle straatjes – of gravelwegelkes liggen aan het ... read more

PP-DN We started off hesitant about whether we were going to be able to make it all the way to Queenstown, where we were booked in for our first stop. At our first full stop in Omaka we could see towering cumulus clouds forming up high. This restricted us to flying about 1000 ft and only occasionally managing to get a bit higher. We followed the coast all the way down stopping at Kaikoura, Ashburton, Oamaru and finally making it to Dunedin. Our bad weather training was being put into full force as bands of rain came and went. With the patients and good decision making from our instructors Brent Blacktopp and Dave Watson, we all managed to make it through to Dunedin before nightfall. Although not having accommodation booked there, Dave's uncle kindly gave us ... read more

Well me and my bike got here safely on the bus and I felt like an awful fake as I arrived at the hostel people asked me where had I come from? I replied the bus station. I can't stop laughing even now. For a while I seemed to have routed myself here for no particular reason, oh yes I ordered some paniers off trade me (the same as e-bay) so I am waiting for there arrival and well, I need to rest my weary backpacking legs. I haven't wasted my time here, I am out and about trying to find my cycling legs and the wildlife, which I have to say is running away from me. I set off down the Otago Peninsula one day in search of the Royal Albatross, they had all flown ... read more

Dunedin is quality. Watched a distinctly average England performance yesterday followed by what can only be described as one of the best nights I have ever had. Having a couple of drinks in a bar on the main square and none other than 9 England players came along. Apparently Tuilagi is even bigger in real life than he appears on tv, if that's even believable. Thompson, Hape, Banahan, Easter, Lawes, Armitage, Shaw, Tuilagi, Tindal. Apparently Tindal also agrees than Sharples should be here. And when asked if he makes the lads call him Prince, he casually replies "Nah, just Lord" and sees off the rest of his pint, before scratching his twisted stump of a nose triumphantly. But before all that we had a drive down to here from Christchurch, choosing a route that was slightly ... read more