Dunedin

We have been away for a few days celebrating our 40^th wedding anniversary. We started off with a weekend in Dunedin where we caught up with Sam and Bex. On the Sunday we headed off to Allan’s Beach. It’s on the Otago Peninsular and a bit remote but access is by a very reasonable gravel road.

It’s a wild and secluded place, with steep cliffs (home to penguins)

and wide open beaches.

Here are Sam and Bex

and the elderly couple.

Here is a male sea lion or possibly seal pretending to be a rock

and further down the beach a female basking in the warmth (given they are found down to the sub-antarctic islands a Dunedin autumn would seem tropical).

There were several of my favourite oystercatchers.

After Dunedin we flew to a really tropical place - but that will have to wait for the next post.