Oamaru - Day 1

[david63]

As I said before the main purpose of stopping off here was to go and see the little blue penguins but as we could not get on the trip today we did it yesterday in Dunedin.

Anyway we are here now so what is there to do in Oamaru on a Sunday afternoon? Pretty much the same as anywhere else on a Sunday afternoon - not much. What there is here is a Victorian Precinct - where all the original buildings are located and are being kept alive by small business and shops, many dealing in olde worlde things. In some respects as you enter the precict it remided me of somewhere like Beamish with all the old streets and no traffic! It is good to see that these building are being preserved and not demolished for high rise something or other.

Whilst we were in that area there was an old train giving short rides along the coast so we opted to go on it and we were glad that we did as its terminus was at the piont where we would have been going to see the penguins - and we were so pleased that we went in Dunedin as this was just so artificial and touristy whereas in Dunedin it was all natural.




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