We woke up this morning to a beautiful day- not a cloud in the sky. After breakfast, we took the city bus to,the Octagon, which is the main square in town. St Paul's cathedral which was consecrated in 1919 sits on the upper side of the Octagon.. Next to it was the Municipal Chambers constructed in 1880. Directly in front of these 2 buildings was a statue of Robbie Burns which had a very white head from the many seagulls which use his head as a perch. While we were there, a man was standing next to the statue in a prayer position paying homage to the great poet.The rest of the buildings surrounding the Octagon were newer buildings. We walked down George street as I had to talk to NZ telecoms regarding my phone. We also went to the Isite where I was able to buy a CD of NZ bird songs. Dunedin is a city of 120,000 of whom 25,000 are students at Otago University. The city was founded by The New Zealand Company in about 1840. The company was comprised of Scottish settlers so Dunedin is very Scottish indeed! We took many pics of the wonderful buildings in the downtown area. We went for a tour of the Railway station and then the Settlers Museum dedicated to the early settlers of the City and region. The New Zealanders really excel in their museums! I could easily have spent the whole day there. There was one room that had portraits of all the old settlers and a computer touch screen with miniatures of all the portraits. You could touch the portrait on the screen and read all about the person or persons. The museum was full of interactive stuff and even had a technology room that traced the history of computers in Dunedin, even having the original huge mainframe that did billings for one of the companies in Dunedin. It was huge but the narrative pointed out that it had less computing power than most scientific calculators of today. We had lunch at a little restaurant in the Octagon, eating at tables on the sidewalk. We both had hamburgers and they were the largest burgers I have ever tried to eat. Next, we went to the railway station to catch the train to Taieri Gorge. This is a city owned railway line that was purchased by the city for tourist purposes after the line was closed down. It was originally used to open up the Otago region interior and went as far as Clyde. The trip was about 4 hours long and went through some spectacular country. We caught the city bus back to the campsite and were rather exhausted after a long day.