The Otago Peninsula lies east of Dunedin, a nice, college-y sort of city that probably would've been more interesting if we had been there any other day but Sunday. Laurie ended up getting sick that Saturday night, too, which didn't help matters any. But there was a lot of nice architecture, of which we don't have any pictures because we had left the camera in our hostel room on Saturday night and split for the peninsula around noon on Sunday.
We had a nice drive leaving the city, though. We made our way up to Taiaroa Head, the northernmost point on the peninsula, where you can view New Zealand fur seals, royal albatrosses, cormorants (or shags), and the rarest penguin of all, the yellow-eyed penguin (or hoiho, in Maori). The penguins are extremely shy, so there's a small viewing hut where we annoying humans can hide as they body-surf to the shore and waddle up into the brush. On the other side of the cliffs there's Harington Point, where I took the pictures of the fur seals.
