Some photos from when Sarah I visited McLean falls in the Catlins.
Tag: new-zealand
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McLean falls
Taken from directly below McLean falls 
Shot of McLean falls from the track 
Another small waterfall near McLeans falls 
Sarah at McLean falls -
Purakanui falls
Sarah I visited the beautiful Purakanui falls in the Catlins.
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Nugget Point
Sarah and I visited Nugget Point in the Catlins.
Sarah beside the Nugget Point lighthouse 
The rockie outcrop as seen from the Nugget Point lighthouse 
The Nugget Point lighthouse -
Sarah and I at the crib
Sarah and I headed to my parents crib (holiday house) in Toko Mouth for the night, before heading south to the Catlins for some site seeing.
This photo was taken on top of the sand hill behind the crib 
This photo was taken near Purakanui falls in the Catlins the next day. More photos from the Catlins coming soon …
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Julia’s visit
Julia Rinck who I met in Germany last year came to visit our lab for four months. I picked her up in Christchurch and on the way back we visited the Baby Blue penguin colony in Oamaru. It was quite late before they came ashore and we weren’t allowed very close, so unfortunately the photos are barely visible.
A week later we headed to the top of Mount Cargill to see the city, but in typical Dunedin style a cloud came through and blocked the view 🙁
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Lightning does strike twice!
Remember my post about being run over by a car? It happened again!
Except this time it happened to my flatmate, and by ‘it happened again’, I mean literally. Mary was mowed down by an evil man at exactly the same corner, on exactly the same side of the street and going in exactly the same direction! Conveniently she also wasn’t too badly injured either, just some aches, pains and bruises.
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Manorburn dam videos with Sarah and Jane
Videos from an awesome trip to the Manorburn dam.
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Penguins on a mission
Continuing my trend of writing blog posts totally out of sync, here are some photos from a recent trip to the Otago Peninsula. I acted as tour guide for visiting student Meghan Dunn during her visit here. My previous attempts to find penguins for tourists has always failed. I usually the find the pesky little birds when I least expect it, but never when I’m trying to! So to avoid that frustration we headed to Penguin Place, a little sanctuary about 30 mins drive from my place.
Penguin Place is on a small piece of land on the coast. If you zoom in, you can see the constructions in the sand hills designed for tourists to watch the birds.
The birds aren’t caged, they’re allowed to come and go as they please, but are provided with warm, man made shelters which they seem to quite like living in. Before heading down to the main Yellow Eyed penguin area, we stopped to see some Baby Blue penguins which also lived there, you can see one sitting in it’s little hut in the photo below.
We watched the birds surfing in on the waves after a hard days work catching fish. This little dude took his time and sat out in the waves enjoying the scenery for a while.
But he eventually waddled his way out of the surf …
and then met up with his little buddy who waddled back over the sandhill with him …
but his friend treated it as a race …
So he decided to lean back and have a stretch instead. All that fishing must have taken it’s toll!
He even posed for me 🙂
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Mt Cargill 2008
Thanks to Dars for the photos 🙂
