Long Beach

The Saturday after going to Sandfly Bay (Sept. 6) Austin drove Hannah, Amy, Michelle, and I out to Long Beach which is on the north side of the harbour. It is very pretty, and there are caves and places to rock climb there. It was even warm enough to sunbathe for part of the time! I collected some shells, too.

We did some bouldering, and checked out the main, big cave. Hannah, Austin, and I crawled into a little space, and that was cool. I also checked out the second cave, which is very rectangular.












After we started getting sort of cold, we drove to Aramoana after unsuccessfully searching for New Zealand's tallest tree. Aramoana is across the harbour from Taiaroa Head, so by the tip of the peninsula. There is a long pier-like thing at the beach there, and we walked out to the end.










There were people riding on the beach!


This was another fun day trip.

Otago Museum and stuff

Today in Dunedin was sunny and got warm in the afternoon. I awoke around 11, and got out the door at 1. I did some chores, and got some books for my anthropology paper from various libraries (main library, medical library, science library).

Then I went to the Otago Museum to look at the stuff I hadn't seen yet. Have you ever noticed that if you go in a museum by yourself and there's no one in there, it's a little creepy? Especially the Animal Attic - a bunch of stuffed animal specimens. I kept thinking "what if they suddenly come to life?" but that did not occur. I didn't go in the butterfly exhibit today. It costs money, but I want to go in it once. Not enough time today.

The Peoples of the World exhibit was quite cool. It had some Greek coinage, Greek pottery, and well, a whole bunch of pottery from all over everywhere, really. I thought of you, and how much you would enjoy all that pottery.

Last night I watched Resident Evil with Becky, Karin, and Amy. Then I went with Austin and Amy to Hannah's flat and we played Rummy, also with Michelle who is Hannah's flatmate. Fun times! We were listening to a lot of Avril Lavigne and singing loudly and other chick singers and almost killed Austin.

This morning I went to the Farmer's Market! I got venison mince, honey, apples, and a crepe. Now I am going to Long Beach and I'm gonna do some bouldering!!!

I watched PS I Love You (PS its terrible) with Amy, her neighbor Niral, and another girl from Toroa Esther. Then Amy and I watched Wordplay, a documentary about the NY Times crossword puzzle. It was good but I fell asleep and missed the ending.