After we finished cherry picking in Cromwell, we decided to take a little roadtrip with our Georgia friends Ian and Jacklyn. We headed down to the bottom of the south island and saw the most southern point of New Zealand which is a neat contrast to the most northern point up in Cape Reinga. We spent some time in Invercargill checking out the totara exhibit, travelled through the Catlins and saw lots of interesting marine life and continued our journey up the east coastline to Dunedin. We had many laughs, met a lot of interesting people, camped out in a lot of random places and experienced some outstanding things :)
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| John an Jack on the beach in Queenstown. |
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| Henry the Tuatara who is 111 years old. Tuatara can only now exist in predator free areas like Invercargill's tuatara center which runs a sucessful breeding program. |
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| Ian and John posing with the staute of Henry, he's kind of a big deal around here! |
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| Ian's road trip food... gross discount salami |
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| John and M getting a shot in the pouring rain in front of Waipapa point lighthouse. We go the distance for our devoted blog followers :) |
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| On a sunny note, a picture with the southerners and a heap of sheep as our backdrop. |
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| Smiles :) |
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| Slope point the most southern point in NZ. Distance to Equator 5140km and only a mere 4803kms to the south pole. |
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| The winds are very strong on the point as you can tell with the damage it does to the trees. |
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| We spent the better part of a day exploring the marine life in Curio Bay. |
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| Very strange seaweed in the bay, it has a rubbery texture and lots of little sea creatures hide in and amongst it. |
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| Jack's find a little snail |
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| This is what Paua look like before they are taken out of their beautiful shells. This one is too small to eat, has to be 125mm. |
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| John getting attacked by the seaweed |
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| In the bay there is heaps of petrified wood, amazing to see the formation of it all up close. Petrified wood is when the wood gets really scared and turns into a rock haha |
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| My lovely merman |
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| Porpoise Bay |
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Ian getting a work out in with a seaweed skipping rope
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| In Porpoise Bay where we were swimming with two hector dolphins. The water was cold but it was amazing. They were so curious about our presence and swam under the surf board; they were clsoe enough to touch. |
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| Yellow Eyed Penguin In Curio Bay |
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| Yellow Eyed Peguins are the rarest penguin in the world |
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| They come to shore to feed their young and we were lucky enough to catch it on camera |
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| This little guy is showing off for the camera, doing a little dance |
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| One of our beautiful campsites that we literally stumbled across, some may call it tresspassing opps |
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| A whale creation in front of The Lost Gypsy Gallery. The Gallery is bus in the middle of nowhere which holds the most unique automatons, which is non-electric moving machines. Most if not all of the art automatons are created with recycled material. |
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| A wonderful wimpsical place |
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| Stopped off at a beach to stretch and found some interesting things, like this gigantic starfish |
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| Our tired compardres taking a snooze, interesting Ian .... |
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| and pochablondas |
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