Wednesday, April 26, 2000

Our trip to Otago and Canterbury

23-Apr-2000 thru 26-Apr-2000

Otago and Canterbury are regions on the East coast of New Zealand's South Island


(New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

Stuffed giant albatross at the albatross colony

Molting Yellow Eyed Penguin named Ed. (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)
The head of a Yellow Eyed penguin named Ed. . (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

This is Ed; a rare yellow eyed penguin who is currently in molt

(New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)


A yellow eyed penguin in full plumage

Small A-frame shelters (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

This is a man-made nesting area for the yellow eyed penguin. They are built because all of the native shrubbery is missing

Purple church (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

The church in Green Acres on the Otago Peninsula

The Green Acres Garage (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

No, the train station here is not named " Petticoat Junction"

(New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

A view back on Dunedin from the Otago peninsula

. Lanarch Castle on the Otago peninsula. It's a mansion built by an early Kiwi whom later committed suicide on the floor of Parliament because his son was having an affair with his wife (the son's step-mother) (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

Lanarch Castle on the Otago peninsula. It's a mansion built by an early Kiwi whom later committed suicide on the floor of Parliament because his son was having an affair with his wife (the son's step-mother)

A view down the corridor in the center of a hedge covered path (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

A hollow hedge in front of Lanarch Castle

Gryphon statue. (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

Statuary on the stairway to the "Castle's" main entrance

Lion statue (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)
Eagle statue (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)
The Queen of Hearts (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

Lanarch Castle's gardens have a lot of statuary in them - some to the Alice In Wonderlandtheme

A big white chicken (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

Fuzzy Chickens In The Garden

Spherical boulder (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)
Line of Spherical boulders (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

On the way from Dunedin to Christchurch there are these weird boulders on the beach

(New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

SGK on a boulder

Hollow boulder (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

The boulders are hollow

cross hatch pattern on a boulder. (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

And they have a weird texture

Fuzzy yellow flowers (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

Flowers

pasture full of sheep with snow covered mountains in the background. (New Zealand, The Travel Addicts, South Island)

Pastoral New Zealand

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