Oamaru

I'm I arrived in Oamaru around midday. It's a very sleepy town with not much going on. I had a look around and there's lots of beautiful Victorian architecture made out of Oamaru Stone (a type of limestone mined just over the hill). For such a small place I was surprised to find out it had an opera house. I had a look around the church, again made out of Oamaru stone. I get the impression that this is a deeply Christian town.

It's quite sleepy during the daytime, shops here shut at 4pm. So I decided to go to the cinema to watch the revenant. Very good but so bloody. I enjoyed chatting with the lady working at the cinema (from Texas). We both compared notes on just how tiny the place is. She gave me some advice about seeing the penguins. In the evening I went and saw the blue penguin colony. Which involved sitting around for 2 hours waiting for them to come to shore. Eventually they did, they're so tiny and so wary of humans but they literally just cross the road! Excuse the quality if the pictures.

On the second day there seemed to be some sort of boat racing in the harbour (old old wooden boats) which was kinda fun especially as some sunk! There are lots of book shops and art gallerys in the old Victorian warehouses which I wandered around. I went and saw the yellow penguin colony later on. You have to watch them come up onto the beach from a hide on the top of the cliff. Still amazing. There were some seals on the beach aswell and I saw some move around for the first time and they moce quicker than you'd think!