What a day!
Salamander
Fri 10 Dec 2010 09:22
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Another of the 101 Kiwi Must Do's:
Basically you drive down the Southern Scenic
Highway and choose your stop offs from the many wildlife beaches, waterfalls,
caves etc. There are many many choices and we limited ourselves to
four.
Our first stop was for scenery and cliff top views
of a very rare rock ledge where sea lions, elephant seals and fur seals
jostle for space. The eerie noises from the ledge were incredible and the views,
yet again, breathtaking.
 Our choice of cave was the renowned Cathedral Cave.
By this time we had picked up two French backpackers who were going to
Invercargill to catch the Stewart Island ferry and did all of the stops with
us.
  Next up the waterfall choice - apparently the
second prettiest according to our guide book.
 A stunning end to our day on a yellow eyed penguin
beach. This beach does not tag or interfere with the penguins and they all seem
healthy and ignore the people on the beach - on other beaches they are described
as very shy and will stay in the water to avoid people. At one point the penguin
stopped and waited until we realised we were in the way, moved and the penguin
continued to its nest. These are the rarest penguins in the world - we still
haven't seen any possums.
   You could spend all day on stop offs. A perfect day
was rounded off with yet another pizza. Caroline spotted their fridge magnets
display and as the staff didn't know the price, they gave us one gratis!
Wildlife, pizza and freebies, could life get any
better? (Yes we do have a glass of wine in hand!)
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