Stopped for coffee, a meat pie (for Matt) and custard roll (for me) on our way to the YEP preserve. Did I mention that I loved the abundance of bakeries? On the way there we stopped at the same beach we had stopped the day before but this time waves were crashing fiercly into the board walk area and going over the wall. It was cool to watch the waves roll in.
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| While we watched a local stopped by. He said he had never seen anything like this before in his life. Once he found out we were Americans he asked if we like our President and proceeded to call him a sappy bloke. |
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| Yellow-Eyed Penguins |
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| Can you see the furry baby in there? Click to enlarge |
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| We did a tour of Cadbury Chocolate. The end of the tour had an amazing chocolate chute where 100s of gallons of chocolate dropped in front of our eyes. |
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| Ducks of Paradise mama and chicks. |
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| Moeraki Boulders along the way to Oamaru. |
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| A bunch of boulders are buried in this beach and slowly uncovered over time and then they break down into huge pieces. pretty cool. |
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| After we checked into our backpacker we went to the Little Blue Penguin preserve. The LBP are not endangered. This is the viewing area that you sit and wait for it to get dark and then slowly "rafts" of penguins come floating onto shore and climb up the rocks to go to their nests to feed their babies. There was a light so we could see but the penguins couldn't see us. We saw hundreds come ashore. Pictures weren't allowed so check out the link above. |
After we watched all the LBP come in, we saw some in the parking lot and some wandered under our car as we were driving out. We had to stop our car and scare them out from under the car by shaking our keys at them.
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