So, at the crack of dawn (7.30 - now Martyn is exaggerating as even I know this is not quite the crack of dawn!) we woke up at our friends house in Dunedin remembering that we had a ferry to catch tomorrow. The best laid plans went slightly to waste as we couldn't find the right key to lock their door with on the way out - never mind.
We zoomed off to Nugget Point - named so for when the light shines just right, the rock formations look like nuggets of gold - no gold today, but a cool see-through floor at the top by the light house - K held on tight as apparently it was scary.
We headed next to the Petrified Forest, which was actually a beach which used to be a forest but when the volcano blew and there was a flood the trees all became impregnated with silica and were hence fossilised. Had to get there within 4 hrs of low tide to see it though and we were slightly delayed due to a visit to the Lost Gypsy Gallery which is in a bus and is basically a guy fiddling around in a shed/workshop making things out of rubbish! Needless to say my scheduled 5min quick stop became 45mins at least and it was very cool. We both twiddled many handles and said 'oh wow look at this' quite a lot.
Anyway made it to curio bay and the petrified forest with about 10mins to spare so got to see cool trees. There was a moulting yellow eyed penguin on the beach which everyone else was focussing on so we had the rest of the beach to ourselves!
Car picnic for lunch and then on to Invercargill to shop for food and sleep.
Found yummy bread and two savoury swirls to have with our soup. Had to laugh - Martyn chose the savoury swirls. Took me a while to work out they were vegemite and cheese. Martyn does not like vegemite. Except apparently with cheese (he was quite surprised when I told him it was vegemite!) but hey he likes fish now as well apparently! Don't worry though I'm holding out as I still do not like sprouts!
Had to cook soup in bowls in microwave. Didn't realise microwave was 100W more powerful than the cooking instruction listing. Didn't read instruction to cover the bowl. Dinner delayed somewhat by needing to clean microwave. Exploding soup made cooking a bit more interesting though. As usual we were laughing too much to be efficient with our clean up. French people cooking dinner at same time did not seem overly amused!
Oh and campsite has unisex toilets and showers - thats quite interesting, but then so was the long drop toilet I had to use today - an unexpected breeze caused another burst of hilarity. I leave you to imagine the rest!
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