Leaving the cloud-enshrouded central alps behind for now...
we transited 320km south and east.
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We passed the cyan-colored Lake Pukaki, amazing even under heavy cloud...
and continued down the Waitaki valley, past a series of lakes ...
created by eight dams on the mighty Waitaki River 70 years ago ...
(blue water out of the camera, not by photoshop) and finally returning to the Pacific Ocean ...
and to the coast town of Dunedin (pronounced like "done eatin'"). The Kellehers were here on a cruise stop some years ago but we hadn't been.
Haven't found a view of the town as a whole yet, but we did look at its major architectural sights, like the victorian train station.
The inside is supposed to be as snazzy as the outside. We'll see tomorrow. We looked into the First Church,
which has a fine wooden roof
and funny old umbrella-holding loops on the pews.
Also poked our noses into the town's other big church, St. Paul's, which is odd in that the nave is gothic,
but the apse, clearly a recent addition, is modern.
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