Watching the kings of the sky
Heading off the
highway just before Dunedin, we wound our way along the countless
little bays of the Otago Peninsula. It is a nice road to get a good
look at the city over the harbour, surrounded by soft hills to either
side. At the end of the peninsula, New Zealand's wildlife offers a
good evening's entertainment – unfortunately it's the humans who
charge you for seeing it. The Royal Albatross centre, the Penguin
colony and most of the viewing possibilities nearby cost entry, and
are not very cheap. Though, if you are lucky, you can get a good
close up look at the winged giants from a viewing platform next to
the carpark. It was quite fascinating to watch them hovering through
the air, soaring high without the faintest move, only lifted by the
wind in their huge wings. They made the little seagulls around them
seem really pathetic with their constant fluttering.
The world's steepest street
Dunedin was a
short stop for us, as cities usually are for us, but we had quite
some fun climbing Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world.
It has a gradient of 19°. Tourists flood the place and we fit
ourselves in for once by taking some silly pictures.
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