We decided to drive the scenic route up the Catlins coast on our way to Dunedin. It seemed like a great idea in the morning, but once we got started the rain followed us all the way to Dunedin. We tried to make the most of it by stopping at all the sights anyway and taking pictures of the bays, but they all looked the same in the rain.
Andy had already gone up the coast while Konni and I were on Stewart Island, and when he went it was much more beautiful and sunny. So seeing his pictures just made it worse. We still tried our best to see everything we stopped at Frasers Beach (really cool stone beach), Waipapa Beach and Lighthouse (we saw a sealion chillin in the rain, it looked like the other sealions sent him out to get pictures taken because none of the others wanted to be out in the rain), Cairo Bay, and Tautuku Beach. The good thing about the rain was it made all the waves HUGE at these beaches, so that was at least nice to watch for a little while. Not really much else to say about the drive, it was just rainy bay after rainy bay, but I'm still glad we went up that way; took a bit longer but not too bad.
When we arrived in Dunedin we stayed in a place called HOGWARTS(!!!!), the lady running the place even looked a bit like a witch (one of the nice ones though lol). This was a really nice hostel, it was an old house, and everything was just warm and nice. I even got a double bed to my self which was dopetastic (even though I only ended up sleeping on a small part of it because I wasn't used to having so much room). We ended up going out that night to a few places, and eventually got to Monkey Bar. This place was BUMPIN'.. packed with students though, which is good and bad. Students kinda smell, and they just are that cool to be around, but they wear the sluttiest clothes so it evens out, kinda...
The next day we wanted to go to the beach but it was still raining so we stayed in, watched Pulp Fiction and did some laundry. They had a laundry service at this hostel, $8 and you get your laundry washed, dryed, AND FOLDED; it was beautiful. Since it was raining we decided to go on the tour of the Speights Brewery, the one in Dunedin is the last gravity run brewery left in the Southern Hemisphere I believe. The tour guide gave us a bunch of cool facts, but we got to drink as much as we wanted at the end (6 different kinds of Speights!) so I don't remember any of the facts. Just know that Speights is the beer to drink in the South Island and the best ones are Speights Gold Medal and Speights Old Dark (if you prefer dark beer). We kind of wanted to go out that night but, after drinking at the brewery we just decided to get to bed so we could get started early the next day. On to Kikoura!
Peace & Love
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