Today was mostly travel through rolling hills on the way to Dunedin. We saw a lot of sheep. Dunedin is called the Edinburgh of the south because of the Scottish influence. We even got to take part in a haggis ceremony. Looks like dog food and tastes like liver wurst. Vera even found another quilt shop and picked up more interesting fabric.
A note on our weather: Other than the big storm in Christchurch, it has been quite nice, although a little cool. You can feal the days getting shorter. I imagine they are getting shorter at about the same rate our days are getting longer. Consequently, the days feel very fall like. The mornings tend to be crisp, with low hanging clouds or fog that burns off by noon. Our driver told us that the leaves would be turning in about 2 or 3 weeks. The humidity has been quite low, surprisingly so. New Zealand rarely has forest fires, as the droughts are very short lived. On the north island the dairy farmers were complaining because there had been no rain in a month; a true New Zealand drought. In fact the fields were brown when they should have been green. Everything is quite green on the south Island, but that may be because of last week's storm. There are rumors right now of a cyclone near Fiji and heading towards Auckland, but not to arrive until just after we leave.
Train station in Dunedin
First church built in Dunedin
Birds we found in the Dunedin botanical garden
Haggis ceremony, complete with haggis
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