Dunedin is a nice city located on the southern portion of the east coast of the south island. With a population of 124,000, it is the second largest city in the south island (Christchurch is the largest). It is the principal city of the Otago region. Like San Francisco, it is hilly and, at one time, invented the technology for cable cars to turn corners– a technology that is still used in San Francisco today. Ironically, the cable cars have since been removed from Dunedin. The city also reminds me of Madison, WI in that it has "The Octagon" in the center of the city and the other streets wind around it and route to and from it.
One of the largest breweries in New Zealand is Speights, which is located in Dunedin. Andrea and I went on a tour of the brewery. In this photo, there are four barrels full of key beer-making ingredients– Hops, Sugar, Toasted Malt, and Lager Malt.
In the tasting room, you can try six of the many beers Speights brews. The porter is the darkest of them. Andrea didn't like it at first, but grew to really love it by the bottom of the glass. I really liked all of them but the Pilsner, which had too much hops, was my least favorite. It was fun to drink the beer and then you could nibble on the malts they used to make them. I never realized that malt is made from barley. I thought they were separate ingredients.
This is the Dunedin Railway Station. It is a beautiful building that is the last of three stations built between 1873 and 1906. It was designed in a Flemish Renaissance style.
This is the inside of the railway station. Although it is beautiful, it is not very large and there is disappointingly little to explore in the inside.
Then we were off on a scenic drive along the Otago Peninsula. The peninsula has two roads– one that hugs the coast and another that climbs and overlooks it. This photo was taken from the latter.
Near the tip of the peninsula, the two roads converge and the remainder of the road follows the coast. I love how during low tide, people just let their tied-up rowboat settle on the ground until the tide comes back again.
At the tip of the peninsula, there is a albatross reserve area. Next to it is a beach were, after sunset, penguins return to their nest from a day of fishing.
This is the viewpoint of the beach we had as the sun set and we waited patiently for the penguins to arrive.
It was pretty cold, getting colder, so we had to wear all of our clothes.
This penguin was the first to arrive. It arrived alone and 45 minutes before the rest of the penguins (who arrived in a large group). It was really funny watching him awkwardly navigate the rocks on the beach.
Although we tried our best to find a spot that was out of the way, to our luck, the first penguin managed to waddle straight up to us and stopped as if we were blocking the route to its nest.
It seemed to stand there and wait for something and other tourists started to whisper to us that they thought we were in its way. We continued to stay still hoping it would go around us but eventually moved. It turned out that the tourists telling us to move were the ones in the way.
The rest of the penguins arrived together in a large group after the sun was down and it was too dark to take pictures. We left and arrived back in Dunedin in time to see Iron Man 2 at the cinema.
One of the largest breweries in New Zealand is Speights, which is located in Dunedin. Andrea and I went on a tour of the brewery. In this photo, there are four barrels full of key beer-making ingredients– Hops, Sugar, Toasted Malt, and Lager Malt.
In the tasting room, you can try six of the many beers Speights brews. The porter is the darkest of them. Andrea didn't like it at first, but grew to really love it by the bottom of the glass. I really liked all of them but the Pilsner, which had too much hops, was my least favorite. It was fun to drink the beer and then you could nibble on the malts they used to make them. I never realized that malt is made from barley. I thought they were separate ingredients.
This is the Dunedin Railway Station. It is a beautiful building that is the last of three stations built between 1873 and 1906. It was designed in a Flemish Renaissance style.
This is the inside of the railway station. Although it is beautiful, it is not very large and there is disappointingly little to explore in the inside.
Then we were off on a scenic drive along the Otago Peninsula. The peninsula has two roads– one that hugs the coast and another that climbs and overlooks it. This photo was taken from the latter.
Near the tip of the peninsula, the two roads converge and the remainder of the road follows the coast. I love how during low tide, people just let their tied-up rowboat settle on the ground until the tide comes back again.
At the tip of the peninsula, there is a albatross reserve area. Next to it is a beach were, after sunset, penguins return to their nest from a day of fishing.
This is the viewpoint of the beach we had as the sun set and we waited patiently for the penguins to arrive.
It was pretty cold, getting colder, so we had to wear all of our clothes.
This penguin was the first to arrive. It arrived alone and 45 minutes before the rest of the penguins (who arrived in a large group). It was really funny watching him awkwardly navigate the rocks on the beach.
Although we tried our best to find a spot that was out of the way, to our luck, the first penguin managed to waddle straight up to us and stopped as if we were blocking the route to its nest.
It seemed to stand there and wait for something and other tourists started to whisper to us that they thought we were in its way. We continued to stay still hoping it would go around us but eventually moved. It turned out that the tourists telling us to move were the ones in the way.
The rest of the penguins arrived together in a large group after the sun was down and it was too dark to take pictures. We left and arrived back in Dunedin in time to see Iron Man 2 at the cinema.
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