Today we managed to get up earlier than yesterday and were packed up and ready to leave at 10am. We said goodbye to Dunedin Holiday Park for the last time and headed into Dunedin to use the internet in the library and buy some postcards. There was one place we still needed to see before leaving Dunedin for good - Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world!

We parked up on the main road and walked to the bottom of this VERY steep street! The weekend before there had been the annual 'gutbuster' race up to the top - no thankyou! I didn't even want to walk up there, so I stayed at the bottom while Dave went up to take photos. At the steepest point, for every 1 metre in length, it goes up 2 metres in elevation! Afterwards, Dave convinced me to drive up to the top - something I would not do again! It was so steep I didn't think the van would make it, and I had to go down to first gear at the very top. Blummin scary!!

Back on the nice, flat raods, we started our journey towards The Catlins in Coastal Otago. We somehow managed to miss an important turning and ended up 30km in the wrong direction and had to turn around and go back the way we'd come (Dave's navigation error this time!), but we eventually made it to the DOC site by late afternoon. THis was another $6 fee site, but again, noone bothers to come round the sites checking you've paid at this time of year as it's so quiet, so we conveniently forgot to pay again! The site is in a stunning location, right on the beach of the bay. It's nice to sit in the van reading or writing the diary and be able to see the Ocean out of the window.

As the clocks have now gone forward it doesn't get dark until around 8pm, so we're enjoying the longer days and not having to put the light on until late! When we got here in August, it got dark at 6pm! We spent the night reading, then when we couldn't get to sleep, started talking about and planning our wedding...