From Grads to Nomads

Yesterday Rob and I drove out to Larnach castle and checked into the Larnach Lodge, where we stayed in a gorgeous Victorian style room overlooking the bay, right beside the castle. We took a self guided tour of the castle, learning about the tragic history of the Larnach family (the father and one of the sons each took a gun to their head, the other sun had an illicit affair with his fathers 3rd wife...the reason for the father shooting himself) and enjoyed the elaborate woodwork and architechture of the building. We later enjoyed a tasty dinner at a waterfront restaurant before tucking in for the night at the lodge. Today we awoke to bagpipes, as there was a man playing them in front of the castle, undoubtedly for the mass amounts of tourists arriving by bus.

Today we figured out further travel plans and put our car into an auction so fingers crossed that it sells this week! This evening we drove out to the penguin beach with the guys, and as luck had it, the penguins showed up again!! On the drive out, we noticed tons of cars all stopped along the road, and everyone had cameras and picnics. We had seen a HUGE cruise ship in the harbour, so we wondered if this was correlated. I went over to ask a woman what the fuss was about, and sort of figured that maybe this was the first time a ship that huge had come into Dunedin so it was a big deal. Well....apparantly this ship comes in all the time, the people here just must not have enough to do on a tuesday night, other than watch a ship sail by and take pictures of it. We had a good laugh over this!

Tomorrow on the agenda...golfing...