After having the jam sandwish as breakfast, we went to
the Railway stations as the car park campsite will become casual car park after 8am. The
railway look so beautiful and ancient like renaissance style building. We spent there an hour to take photos.
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| Dunedin Railway Station building |
At 9am, we parked our car at Countdown
which is near to the Octagon, we went to the Kiwibank to settle hers bank
matter first. It doesn’t allow to change the phone number that receive pin to
phone number other than New Zealand Number. Then we went to the Noel Leeming to
find my camera battery but they didn’t sell it. On the way back, I saw a shop
selling video and camera acc. I asked and they got original and a wasabi power
brand battery. I bought a wasabi power brand battery which cost NZD38.
At 10am, we visited the St Paul's Cathedral. I
am amazed with the building. But the most amazing thing is the organ which is
the best and finest in New Zealand. The music played by the organ is nice to
listen and feel like wanted to stay long inside. If we had a lot of time, we
definitely will be stay in inside.
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| St Paul's Cathedral |
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| Largest and finest organ in New Zealand |
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| Interior View |
Then we visit the Dunedin Art Gallery which
is free admission. There are a lot of nice art inside.
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| The wall painting art in the Art Gallery |
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| Big sculpture art |
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| Tank made of leather |
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| The drawing art is amazing, there are skyscrapper when look closely! |
At 12pm, we settle our lunch with the
budget sushi from Savoury Japan. Then we depart to the Catlins.
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| Street shot |
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| Lunch |
The first station at Catlins is the
Purakanui Waterfall. It took around 2 hours to reach there. It only take 10
minutes walk from the car park to the waterfall. The water flow rate is quite
low hence it is not that beautiful.
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| Scenery after leave the Dunedin town |
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| Catlins Visit Map |
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| Purakanui Waterfall |
After the waterfall, we drive back to the
direction where we came to the Cannibal Bay. Once the car enter the small road
to the Cannibal Bay from the main road, it is rocky, narrow and curvy road. I
only drove at around 30-40kmh which is so slow that this 5km road can take
around 20 minutes. When we reached the Cannibal Bay, we didn’t see any sea
lions as the beach is really huge. But we saw a lot of people walking to the
other side of the beach. After I zoomed with my camera, I saw there are sea
lions. The distance to walk to that side is around 500m, it is quite hard to
see the sea lions with eye as it is very far. When we get close, there are 13
sea lions on the beach. The DOC signboard written that should leave 10 meter distance with
the sea lions, but we get near to 5m to take photo with them. They are so huge
and quite scary when they get up and roar.
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| When we almost reach the Cannibal Bay entrance, there were a herd of sheep blocking the way |
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CAnnibal Bay Signboard
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| The sea lions were at furthest part of the beach |
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| We saw seagulls |
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| There were so many sea lions lying on the beach |
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| Some wake up and roar! |
At 4pm, we drive to Nugget Point which took
around an hour time from Cannibal Bay. The scenery after the T junction between
Kaka Point and Nugget Point is quite beautiful. After we reached the Nugget
Point Car Park, it took around 20 minutes to reach the light house and see the
Nuggets on the sea. We managed to see two fur seals from far away.
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| Travk to the nugget point |
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| Nugget Point |
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| Nugget? Can eat? |
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| Two fur seals |
After that, we went to the Roaring Bay
which is not that far from Nugget Point. There is the place to see the
yellow-eye penguins. When we reached that viewing point, the DOC people suggest
to view from the viewing hike where the penguins will appear. After wait for a
while, the DOC call us to come out again, as the penguins appear at the unusual
place and it is far from the viewing point. Then we wait until to 7pm to see
the others but none appear.
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| The penguin at far away |
That night we stayed at the Hillview
campsite which cost $10 per person. There are kitchen that we could use. Hence,
she cook the nice dinner. After dinner, we just stay in the car to blog. The
sky also have a lot of star. We may skygazing later but it is so cold outside.
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| The nice scenery with bench at the Kaka Point |
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| Hill View Camp Site during Sunset |
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| Dinner |
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