As today is our last day in this wonderful area, we revisited all our favourite spots around Dunedin and then went up to Signal Hill.

We went for coffee in Portobello and got chatting to a lady from Barnstaple who has a son living here. She spends every Jan and Feb here and this is the coldest wettest Jan for 6 years! So we will have to enjoy this weeks warm weather as it changes back to rain on Thursday.

Along Aramoana Road we found another spoonbill and got even better photos of this one as it was much closer. They are fascinating to watch as they shovel their beak side to side in the mud in search of food.

We walked all along the spit and there were thousands of shells there. A dead baby shark had been washed up. That was interesting.

Back in Dunedin we went up the very windy steep road to the top of Signal Hill. There was an amazing view over the city and coast from up there. The monument was to commemorate the early settlers. In 1941 it was the centenary of the town of Dunedin. Rock from Edinburgh was sent here to celebrate this. (In wartime ?!)

Dunedin  was built to be like Edinburgh and Dunedin is the celtic name for Edinburgh

Tomorrow we travel 26 miles to Inverscargill opposite Stewart Island (more Scottish names)