Pengiuns!!!

Hello everyone! sorry we’ve been so slack in updating our blog, this all seems like ages ago for us now but this is what we’ve been doing since our last post… We entered the catlins, an area along the south coast of the south island to beautiful weather, we drove straight to a lookout called Nugget point, where we were really lucky to arrive just on time to see some yellow eyed penguins coming out of the sea to make their way back to their  nests on the beach, we then took a walk upi to a lighthouse on the end of the point surrounded by sea stacks, where we could see a family of seals lazing on the beach down below, we then made our way back inland a little bit to find our hostel for the night, or campsite seeing as we were camped in the garden, it was a really nice old building, which was a former hospital, it had massive corridors which the two brazilian guys who were running it used scooters to get around them on. The only problem at the hostel was that there was a really odd family staying there who instantly gave us the creeps, not for any particular reason they just looked like they probably came from transylvania and acted pretty strangely toward us, but to be honest they were probably quite nice :s maybe.. anyway after we’d set up our tant we went for a walk on a nearby beach, and we were both walking along saying to each other I wonder if we’ll see a seaslion, cus they were apparently quite common on that beach, and then we realized that the huge log infront of us was infact a sleeping sealion! So we skirted around it quickly and sat watching it for a while, it was about 7-8ft long!

The next couple of days we spent traveling along the catlins visiting really nice waterfalls, and some amazing caves called cathedral caves which were about 30 ft tall and could only be accessed at low tide, and we visited this wicked little bus called the lost gypsy bus, were the guy had built up a collection of little trinkets and things in an old travelling bus, complete with a little train that ran around the ceiling setting off little bells hanging down near the track, and nocking things out of its way, we saw N.Z’s very own niagra falls which were named by an explorer with a sense of humor, and a beach covered in a fossilized forest, but the penguins there were much more interesting, we visited the most southern point of N.Z., and a really nice beach made entirely of tiny shells rather than sand, where we found a few paua shells and saw three more sealions!  and that night we rented out a little caravan with a television and a bed!! woopee!!