the real thing, but a pretty good effort!!. Last thing on the agenda was somewhere to stay, but we’d decided to give Dunedin Holiday Park a miss - one night in Rhyl is enough for anyone!! On our walk down the beach a couple of nights before we’d noticed a car park with a few campervans parked up, so we headed there and camped up for the night. Technically that’s breaking the law, so don‘t tell anyone!! J

We were up and away pretty early, due to our unofficial lodgings, we didn‘t even stay for breakfast!!! We were headed to Oamaru, a town on the east coast famous for it’s white stone buildings and it’s two penguin colonies. First though was the unusual spectacle of the Moeraki boulders. These are very strange spherical rocks with a honeycomb-like centre which were apparently formed ** million years ago under the sea, and then have been exposed as the cliffs containing them have

eroded. We got to the car park there, and the first job was breakfast, which we ate in peaceful tranquillity watching the Ocean. It didn’t last long however, as four buses full of school kids turned up and started making a racket!! The teacher was really sound though, he came over and apologised for the noise and chatted for a while! The kids were so excited to be out of town that we couldn’t be mad at them for destroying our peace and quiet!! We let them get a decent head start though so that once we got there they were almost finished clambering all over the boulders and shouting at each other!! The boulders themselves were very strange - like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Can’t say much more about them really other than check out the photos!! We read that there was a good chance of spotting Hectors Dolphins (tiny dolphins which hang out in New Zealand) from the headland so went for a quick look, but didn’t see any, so continued on our journey