The Otago Peninsular

We visited Dunedin and the Otago peninsular, stopping off at the Moeraki Boulders on the way; the weather wasn't so great. The boulders are concretions that formed in the mudstone and, when the cliff gets eroded, they fall out onto the beach.

Near Dunedin we went to see the rare Yellow Eyed Penguins - there are about 3000 adults left. It was fantastic; the chicks are now quite big and were waddling around comically. Some were still fluffy whilst others had lost almost all of there chick fluff. They weren't really scared of us and we got pretty close to them. As we walked further out onto the headland we almost tripped over a couple of fur seals lazying around on the grass.

The next evening we went to see the Albatrosses flying in after a day at sea. They were huge but a lot more difficult to photograph.