Dunedin To Invercargill

Dunedin

At Dunedin I had my first surf for the season yet it was pretty good! But it was sooo cold I only went in with booties and a wetsuit, I thought I was gonna freeze to death or get icicles on my hands or something! The days of the fair got a bit rainy and everyone got a bit down and droopy. 

Kaka Point & Nugget Point

On the way to invercargill wich is a 5 hour drive by the way! We stopped the night at a small little town that is called Kaka Point. Where we were parked we had a view of the pretty little beach with pretty good surf, but after dunedin I thought to myself "wayyyy to coldd". The next day we went to a place called Nugget Point and WOW it was so scenic the views of the sea and mountains were outstanding! I really loved looking out at the lighthouse. My dad seeked a sealion out at the rocks and he looked majestic through mums camera lens with his yellow whiskers.

The Falls

On the way down from Nugget Point we met this woman called Melody she came from France and was a teacher coming for a bit of a holiday. She was hitch hiking her way around New Zealand, so we took her with us through eventually all the way to these nice waterfalls. The awesome photographer I am! I went out of bounds and next to the rocks to get a little side photo hehe. Once done with looking at the breathtaking falls we found these nice people travelling around in a van and let Melody go with them!

The Next Stop

At the next stop we meet up with the other gypsies at this little campsite. There was this little pa
thway out to the beach and we made a fire because fishing didn't work out. After a couple of minutes the tide started to come in so I took it upon myself to make a little barrier. The next day I had the BEST time going to this place called the lost gypsy it had lots of inventions this guy made. I was greeted with this button and a sign saying "push this button if you dare" me being a kid and all I obviously was intrigued with this so I slowly pushed the button.. I GOT squirted with a facefull of water!!! Anyway the place was alot like that with little surprises and humour I thought that was one of the best moments yet of my extravaganza trip.

The Next Next Stop

The next stop we drove to this cafe looking place and was pleasently surprised to see that they had a dump station and a place to stay the night. Behind the cafe there was this massive lake with lots of ducks it was really cute to see the  tiny ducklings. My dad picked one up and let me hold it, once I put it down the duck charged at me to send me warning to not hurt her babies. I got given some duck food by the cafe owners and I threw some around. After a few minutes I had huge duck army chasing after me for some food IT WAS SCARY. They all started jumping up at me then some chickens came along and joined the army! My mum thought this was funny so she got her camera out and took photos of it all! Anyway that pretty much sums up my week alot happened this week so it was awesome! 

Timaru And Oamaru

We arrived in Timaru after an awesome weekend at Orari Rivermouth fishing, kayaking taking the long line out to sea and reeling it in excitedly hoping that there would be a massive fish on the end all we got was alot of sharks and a red cod.

         

                                                     In Timaru
In Timaru we had a blast looking around the city admiring its special details and getting to know the cities history. I really liked the public glass elevator I thought to myself we should really have one of these at my city! On the day of the fair we were bummed out, to see so much rain when we woke up. In the morning but we tried our best. That day was pretty dull my highlight of that day was getting a panda facepaint with all the other kids and being apart of the PANDA SQUAD! I havent got much to say about the next day only one thing my friend Aiden 7 years of age who is a gypsy kid had his first day lighting his staff on fire and it was so cute this feeling of just happiness and joy overwhelmed me I was so happy for him!



                                        On The Way To Oamaru
On the way to Oamaru we had to stop at Timaru's local pools and it was great they had the fasted hydroslide! Also a very fun inflatable obstacle course. It wasnt a very exciting trip to Oamaru as it wasn't very far away so I can't write much here.




                                                                      Oamaru

Oamaru was a picturesque city the buildings were amazing! You could see the history in the buildings with one glance it was like being in the middle of paris! Me and some friends had a explore around town (it felt like a town) observing the beatiful buildings and the things in it as we made our way to Steampunk HQ. In steampunk HQ we looked around glazing at every sculpture and object we saw until we made our way to THE PORTAL oh my we stayed at the portal for over half an hour replaying the majestical song and light show. up the top there is a photo showing some of the portal, not nearly capturing the full amazingness of that experience. The next day we had a full day of playing on the playground and getting to know our surroundings. At that night me and mum went to the wharf to see the penguins that come out at night. We saw quite a few, they were very shy. The next two days were normal fair days that went pretty good. Not to much rain and yeah that was pretty much my week. Hope you enjoyed reading this!