{MATCHLESS} PHOTOGRAPHY wedding photographers » dunedin http://matchlessphotography.com/blog wedding and portrait photography in san angelo texas Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:56:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Dunedin part 2 http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/05/27/dunedin-part-2/ http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/05/27/dunedin-part-2/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 01:37:43 +0000 admin http://www.matchlessphotography.com/blog/?p=601 We woke up the next morning and drove out to the tip of the Otago Peninsula.  It was a beautiful drive and on the tip, there is an albatross colony that lives there.  You can pay quite a bit of money to go on a tour and see one of the babies… or you can stand outside and try and see one yourself for free.  If anyone knows either one of us, you would probably know how penny pinching we are, so we went for the free version.  We were warned since it wasn’t that windy, we probably wouldn’t see any, but it’s always worth a try, right?  Well, we did get lucky and saw one fly around a couple times.  If you look at this picture, to the left of the lighthouse is the albatross flying around.  From tip to tip, their wing span is 3 meter long!  Amazing!

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These next two pictures are just of the peninsula.

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We went down town again and walked by the first church in Dunedin.  It was so immaculate.  It just amazing how much time and detail went into building this church!

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Next we went to the famous Railway Station.  It was a beautiful building and still is a working station.  You can pay for a scenic ride or take an ordinary train ride to another destination.

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From the railway station, if you turn around 180 degrees and look behind you, you will be able to see this big purple cylinder tower.  That is a 3 story chocolate water fall at the Cadbury Factory…we got to see it on our tour.
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Then we were off to the Catlins.

by Colin and Andre’a Feldhaus

]]> http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/05/27/dunedin-part-2/feed/ 1 Dunedin part 1 http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/05/26/dunedin-part-1/ http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/05/26/dunedin-part-1/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 01:32:04 +0000 admin http://www.matchlessphotography.com/blog/?p=590 We had heard tons of good things about Dunedin so we knew we had to go.  Dunedin is a city of about 110,000 people… and a huge college town.  Needless to say, it had a fun vibe to it.  Our van started to overheat a bit right as we pulled in, so thank goodness we were in a large town with a garage to take it too.  The verdict:  a leaky pipe draining all our radiator coolant.  lovely.  But the people were awesome and got us right in and didn’t seem to be too overcharged!  Praise the Lord!  So the next morning we did what Colin has been wanting to do since we arrived in the South Island… go take a tour of the Cadbury Factory.  Unfortunately, we couldn’t take our cameras in so we just had these few pictures near one of their cool old trucks.

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But i do think the reason they charge what they do, is because they gave us each 4 candy bars!  Sweet As!… or as our buddy Tannin from Okarito would say, “Yum As.”

After that we did walk around town a bit and then the weather got yucky.  So, we headed to Baldwin Street – the steepest street in the world!  Who knew it would be in New Zealand.  Since, it was raining, we decided to just drive up it, instead of walking.  Our good ole Green Lantern was feeling pretty good after being in the shop – so he had no problems making it to the top.  Here’s our prize van at the top of Baldwin St.

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The next day when the weather cleared up for a bit, we did actually walk up it and even got a certificate proving we did!!  This is actually Colin the next day on the steepest part of the street.  It really was a VERY steep street!

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by Colin and Andre’a Feldhaus

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