Dunedin/Otago Peninsula/East Coast

February 16-17, 2009

 

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The morning after the kayak trip to Doubtful Sound, we drove across the south island to the east coast and the city of Dunedin (pronounced Dun-EE-din).  The Cadbury Chocolate Factory is located here, we took their tour in the afternoon (they didn’t allow any pictures inside of the factory).  Steve had gotten “hooked” on their “Dream” white chocolate while in NZ, taking it on the tracks and eating a few squares after dinner each night.  We can’t get white chocolate that good at home in California!  After the factory tour, we drove out to the Otago Peninsula, known for its yellow-eyed penguins.  We had booked a tour at “Penguin Place” near the end of the peninsula that evening.  We enjoyed watching the penguins in their natural habitat (as opposed to in captivity like most of the other penguins we’d seen).  We camped for the night in the town of Portobello on the peninsula.

 

The next day we headed north along the east coast, with a stop at the Moeraki Boulders, interesting round boulders on the beach.  It was a day of mostly driving though, making it to Timaru where we spent the night and had some pizza for dinner.  It was our last night in the campervan, as we were to return to Christchurch the next day, turn in the campervan, and head out to the airport for our flight to Wellington on the north island.

 

  

Historic Cadbury truck, city of Dunedin from Otago Peninsula

 

      

Yellow-eyed penguins at Penguin Place

 

         

Moeraki Boulders

 

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