We arrived in Dunedin on 8th August after an short journey from Oamaru. We got a cab to our campsite as it was quite far out of town. We stayed in a tiny cabin in a holiday park which contained a bed, a heater and a kettle. We had use of the communal bathroom and kitchen facilities. It was next to a golf course which looked quite nice. We went to have a look and Alan decided to play that afternoon because it was quite cheap. I walked round with him. The course was quite nice up on the cliffs overlooking the beach. I had a few shots. After that we came back, went and stocked up at the supermarket and cooked in the camp kitchen, played a bit of cards then headed to bed. We discover that they love pies in New Zealand so we bought some steak ones that were very nice.

The heater in our room was unfortunately rubbish. When it was on it was fine, as it was a small cabin and warmed up pretty quickly. However it was on a timer, and you had to keep pressing a button every half an hour or it went off. This meant that it got very cold at night. We stayed for four nights in total and after the first night it wasn't too bad becuase we realiased it would be ok if we wore several layers to bed and zipped the sleeping bags right up. We didn't do much in the evenings except play cards, drink wine and eat chocolate. We were starting to wish we knew a few more card games.

We didn't do that much in Dunedin really. On day we went on a walk on the peninsula near our campsite. Acoording to a map they had they were some interesting things to see at the end of it including a big wildlife colony with albatrosses. Unfortunately we didn't realise how big it actually was. We got across a few beaches and sand dunes, and up to a big viewpoint on a hill before we decided to turn back. It was a nice day though, but quite cold. We saw a few determined surfers.

On the other two days we got the bus into town. The bus driver had such a strong accent that we couldn't understand him at all. We actually planned to only stay 3 days, but went I went to book the bus to Queenstown we found that for some reason it was much more expensive to leave the next day, (twice the price) so we decided we might as well stay an extra day.

In town we visited the World's Steepest Street, which is not far out of the town centre of Dunedin. They are quite proud of it, bless 'em. Anyway, it certainly was a very steep street I must admit. It was quite a climb to get to the top. Apparently they have an annual race up and down it, sounds dangerous to me.

On our last day in Dunedin we went to the Settlers and Transport museum, mainly because it was free and there wasn't a lot else to do. It was quite good though to be fair. Apparently the town was started by loads of Scottish people coming over. They also had a lot of info on Maori culture and a loads of old buses, cars and bikes.

We left Dunedin on the 12th and headed to Queenstown!