Te Anau to Dunedin

NZ time... Wednesday 25th January... 9pm

Long drive today for Jan, especially as we decided to go to Dunedin via the scenic south coast route.

Our first stop was at Invercargill, NZ's southern-most city. Pleasant city centre, but a bit sprawly and industrial in places, but a good point to start on the "southern scenic coastal route", on which we chose three places to stop.

First stop was for Curio Bay, interesting to see. Luckily for us it was low tide, as only then can you see the petrified trees in the rock shelf that is normally sea covered.

Next, we went to Purakaunui Falls, short bush walk to get there and worth seeing. Unfortunately, Jan had to drive some 12 Kms on gravel roads to it's location.

Finally, we went to Nugget Point where there's an old light-house, worth seeing but again more gravel road driving for Jan to get there!

We arrived in Dunedin around 5pm. After checking in to Motel, we went to the Octagon & found a bar to watch Andy Murray and have a couple of drinks before dinner.