Akaroa
Salamander
Tue 7 Dec 2010 08:47
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Another NZ beauty spot with the usual beaches for
walking on (because it's to cold for anything else). We even did a boat trip and
admired the very rare white flipper blue penguins and the world's rarest dolphin
(the hector dolphin). We have still not seen any of that common pest the
possum!!!! We were lent a tent by Cherie and Eric but as we are wearing
thermals, woolly hats and using a chap stick daily - a prudent renting of these
sort of huts things with heaters has occured. You get full use of a communal
kitchen and hope that the loos are not too far away.
A typical beach - beautiful, empty (except for the
birds) and cold
  A cute rare white flipper blue
penquin.
 We left for Dunedin taking time out to stop at the
Moeraki boulders. These boulders seem to give off good feeling vibes, they
really have an otherwordly quality - impossible you would think for
rocks!!!. Thankfully with the change in climate, Murray was fully dressed for
these rocks. The moari believe that the boulders are the flotsam cast from the
wreckage of the voyaging canoe Aria - te-uru . The scientists say they are
septarian concretion the biggest of which took 4 million years to
form.
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