Got up and went to see penguins at the Penguin Place. The drive out on the Otago Peninsula was... scary. And I was just the passenger. But I'd have been the first to hit the water, which was sometimes less than one foot over, and varying heights down. Guard rails? Nah. But we saw around a dozen penguins on the tour, and seals. The penguins are yellow-eyed penguins, and are endangered, and I guess basically are only found here. Most of the adults (with the yellow eyes) were out fishing, but we saw one or two, and a lot of chicks. One was about a foot from us behind the blind. Then was saw the "boulders" at Moeraki. They're weird, but not as weird as when you see ones busted open. After that and lunch we drove up, through Christchurch and into Waipapa (a SMALL place) and got a room, which turns out to be a small cottage to ourselves. A lot of driving, but worth it for the penguins.

The boulders were clearly from another dimension, to reference a theme. Although signs posted showed how they THOUGHT they formed, they fail to explain some key parts, like the faceting, and admit they don't really know. Strange things indeed. Also, we ran into a pair of Canadians at the Penguin Place, in a 10 minute overlap we had there. What's odd was we met them in Pittsburgh at the airport, and they're camping around, but said "we'll see you around I'm sure", which I thought was a friendly goodbye. But there they were. They didn't seem surprised. They told us so. Nice people, very much in the Canadian stereotype, which seems to apply to New Zealanders as well.