Dunedin and portobello

It was a bright cold blue skied morning to start our four and half hour drive from te anau to Dunedin. The journey took us through beautiful countryside and loads of sheep farms on either side. It was the first day we drove on relatively straight roads the whole way! Loads of tiny towns, mostly sheep farm centers and not much else. When we reached Dunedin our first stop was the Cadbury chocolate factory for a tour. It's an old operating factory so got to see chocolate bars in the making. We had to put on hair nets and remove all jewelry and watches! The final room was a huge silo where chocolate poured down from above. Wow! Our next stop was sandfly bay. It was at the remote end of otago peninsula, about 25 minutes from central Dunedin. What a magical coastline with huge sand dunes and gorgeous coastline. We climbed down an enormous sand dune - almost vertical and several 100 feet high, on to the shoreline. There we found penguins scurrying by. Many sea lions dotted the coast. Then - one began to chase me! Stephen headed in one direction, and I ran down the coast. Wasn't sure how fast it would go! Then it suddenly stopped and found its mate! We watched the male and female sea lion doing their thing in front of us - right out of a national geographic magazine! We decided to head to our campsite before nightfall, since the road was a narrow one lane road, high above the coast. Gorgeous! Our last night in the "cramper"!