Wednesday 16th - Dunedin was our next destination, a fair old drive across to the east coast so that's about what we did. Stopping for lunch in nowhere of interest and getting to Dunedin late afternoon. Guess everyday can't be exciting hey! Thursday 17th - Got up at 7am to watch the England v Greece game! Left laura asleep. Strangely had to watch it in the campsite laundry as this was the only room which had a tv with sky in! Went into the city centre that morning and did a bit of present shopping (don't anyone get your hopes up!! no one's getting anything exciting!) as well as seeing the train station which is apparently one of the top 200 buildings in the world! That afternoon we drove up the coast to Oamaru. It's a fairly small town but it has 2 types of penguin colony which come ashore around dusk. The first to come in were the yellowed eyed penguins which are really shy and really rare so you have to watch from a hide up on the cliff. We sat....and waited.....and then finally some appeared! The photo's don't do any justice to how close we really were. If you look at the pic and see a black and white smudge on a beach, that's a penguin! Was genuinely exciting watching and waiting for them. In the end we saw about 10 of them. We saw the next ones, blue penguins, at a specially made reserve closer to the town by the harbour. Now these are anything but shy, so bold infact that they've built a grandstand metres from where they come ashore and thety don't care! The only thing they don't like are camera flashes so sadly no pics even though we were metres away and they came onland in groups of 20 or so! Loads of them! One pic which appears to be of a road in the dark, the penguin we were trying not to run over on the way out is on the grass on the left! Cooking food in the kitchen that night met a couple of physio's who lived in stalybridge, one of which runs clinics at greenfield and uppermill! Small world hey! Oooh forgot to mention the random boulders between Dunedin and Oamaru. Not a planned stop but we wanted to know what they were so turned off the road when they were signed! after a dubiously long 300m walk down the beach to them in turned out they were massive perfectly circular rocks just lying on the beach, some of which had cracked open like eggs! See the pics, wierd but quite cool!