Dunedin and beyond

We were on our way after visiting Akaroa, down the east coast of New Zealand and to the beautiful city of Dunedin. This is the second largest city on the south island, after Christchurch (itself with a population of less than a million people.) We had a tour of the Cadbury chocolate factory, learned lots about the production of chocolate, and got lots of samples. Yum.

We visited an historic home, called Olveston. It was really interesting, as it had all the original furnishings as when the family first lived there and acquired things during their travels (the house was built between 1904-06). The house was bequeathed to the citizens of Dunedin, in the trust of the municipality, by the lat surviving member of the family, a daughter who died in 1966.

We continued down the coast and went to the remote Nugget Point, via Roaring Bay, where we saw a few yellow-eared penguins down on the grassy area at the edge of the beach, from the special hut in the picture.























































We made our way down to Invercargill, which wasn't nearly as nice as Dunedin, and stopped for the night at Te Anau, the gateway to Milford Sound.