Road trip to Oamaru 2

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Thu 17 Oct 2013 06:31

On the way back to the main road, large pen of sheep. 

 

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Lambs having their tails chopped off.

 

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Further along the road was supposed to be Maori rock paintings in limestone cliffs.

 

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Looks like some kids work to me.  Apparently, lot of the artwork was carved out of the limestone for souvenirs in the late 1800s and early 1900s

 

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Stylised patterns for which the Maori are famous.

 

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Once we arrived in Oamaru decided to do the evening penguin tour, picked up from the campsite, taken to a restaurant where we had a great meal and two ate for the price of one - bargain.  Taken to two penguin sites.  Supposed to see yellow and blue (fairy penguins).  The first was at Bush Beach Reserve – a not so close encounter.

 

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Well here are two yellow penguins…… and here’s a blue one in the dark.  The yellow penguins come ashore mid-afternoon onwards and the blue penguins after dark.  The latter were the ones we saw in hundreds at Phillip Island.

 

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We paid for the superior seats – not worth it in this case as about 50 penguins came ashore.  But they do have to go through the fence at two sights just in front of us, so we had a great view of a few.  On the way back to the campsite the driver tried to get this train going.  For $2 supposed to have flashing lights, bangs and whistles.  Alas that didn’t work either.

 

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