Them stones

On the way from Dunedin up towards Mount Cook our first stop was the Moeraki Boulders. These are a set of giant marble-like stones that were formed millions of years ago and now find themselves on a beach. We continued on to Oamaru, home to colonies of both yellow-crested and blue penguins. If you're feeling really stupid you can pay $20 to sit on a grandstand and watch a couple of blue penguins. If that's not for you, you can drive to another spot, walk along a short clifftop track and watch yellow crested penguins coming ashore, shuffling up the beach and through the vegetation of the hillside.

The reason for our 3rd stop was another collection of rocks clustered in a depression of land on some chaps farm. The Elephant Rocks are definately worth the stop but a word of caution. The slopes around the rocks, with an early morning dew lacing the fine grass, are very slippery. This is aggrevated further if you're wearing your skydiving shoes. Almost a dislocated something for me and a good laugh for Jacqueline.