Hello from Dunedin, the Edinbugh of the southern hemisphere. We're staying just off Princes Street and have stood beneath Robert Burns' statue, so we're feeling very Celtic at the moment.
The trip down here from Oamaru was along a beautiful stretch of coast, and we saw some more penguins and a large colony of fur seals on the way. We also visited the Moeraki boulders, which started their life as dead animals or plants but over the millennia have been encased in incredibly spherical layers of rock.
Dunedin is a nice, albeit very hilly, city. We puffed and panted our way up Baldwin Street, which is the steepest street in the world, with a gradient at one point of 1 in 2.4. We fancied trying out our hire car, but wasn't convinced that its engine and / or brakes would be up to the job!
Tomorrow we're heading off to the Otago peninsula to spot some more wildlife, before driving south to the Catlins and then on to the fjords.
We've added some photos of the last week to the South Island set.
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