Travels with Mom and Dad II

After the first day we had together since I left Germany 5 month before, we spent a few days in Christchurch before we left to Oamaru and Dunedin. Mom and Dad still didn't completely got over their Jetlag yet and Christchurch is a nice place to stay for a while.

 The gondola up the hills of Christchurch is a very nice experience and the view from the top
  simply amazing. On our way down we saw a wild Kea, the first one Mom and Dad ever saw.

 A little bit like the trams in Lisbon- the Christchurch tram tour. We had a lot of fun, hopped on and off a couple times and saw as much from the city as we could.
The botanical gardens were another must-see, especially the New Zealand gardens. This tree makes mom and me look even smaller than we already are..
We stayed one night in Oamaru so Dad didn't had do drive all the way to Dunedin at once. In the evening we tried to see some wild Little Blue Penguins, but it was freezing cold and too dark to see anything. Instead we went to Scotts Brewing Co. for dinner and mom and dad tested some of their beer.

The next morning we already left to Dunedin, a larger city down south on the east coast. Our original plan was to see the Royal Albatross Centre, but we spontaneously decided to rather do a wildlife tour where they drive along the Otago peninsula to see as many wild animals as possible.

The Otago Peninsula offers a large variety of wildlife as it is quite far away from the mainland.
 A New Zealand Fur seal baby colony waiting for their parents to come back and feed them.
 A male sea lion coming ashore. There are mostly male sea lions on this beach but we got to see two females aswell.
This penguin was one of the main reasons why we did the wildlife tour instead of the Albatross Centre. The Yellow-Eyed penguins are endemic to New Zealand, but their existance is threatened nowadays, and they are possibly extinct in about 20 years.

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