On Boxing Day I explored Arrowtown while Simon went golfing. The next day we made the long drive to Dunedin. The area around was suspiciously green and the weather on our arrival was very poor. However, we still went to see the fur seals, penguins and albatross colony before retreating to the kitchen to cook our barbeque food. We spent the next day in the local museums, cafes and Air New Zealand office in Dunedin. After a successful BBQ we went the following day up to Omarama via the interesting town of Omaru, which has a cheese factory (which does tastings and food) and an old town in limestone. In Omarama we experienced some interesting pub life after a wet 9 holes of golf and had another BBQ. On my birthday we drove up to Lake Tekapo, a beautiful turquoise lake against a background of hills and a foreground of different coloured lupins and spent the afternoon wandering around the lake. That night we had a fabulous meal -- with a special birthday pavalova cake! We drove the next day to Akaroa despite being warned at the tea shop along the way that the nightlife could be crazy. We went out for an excellent meal and made our way back looking for mayhem. We encountered hardly a soul.
We drove into Christchurch to spend the morning in the botanical gardens there before flying to Auckland on our way to Tonga -- our 35th country on this trip. We managed to book our flights to Denver, so we'll be there on the 18th January!! E
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