Spring Break Week 2: Dunedin

      Shortly after returning from Australia I packed my bags to go visit Tyler in Dunedin, NZ.  Tyler owed me a date after winning an intense game of scrabble, so he surprised me by renting bikes for the day.  The plan was to bike to the beach and watch sea lions, seals, and penguins.  He assured me it would be a quick 15 minute bike ride to the beach.  Twenty-two uphill km later (3 hours) we reached our destination.  

           We were both pretty tired, so we decided to finish the bike ride and go to the beach the next day with a car.  The beach ended up being amazing.  After hiking down some sand dunes to get to the beach we were able to get right up close to the sea lions.

      
    
        We quickly learned not to get too close to the sea lions after watching a few fights break out.

          We spent a lot of our time at the beach talking to a volunteer and learning more about the yellow-eyed penguins.  The volunteer later crawled into a penguin's nest for us to take a very close picture.

-Megan Waterhouse