Back in the Big City…. Well at Least in Dunedin

It has been over 10 days since we’ve slept in a bed and 3 days since our last shower. It’s time to get back into the city. We left the Catlins and headed to Dunedin. We went straight to the hostel we booked our beds to take showers.

Once we were clean Marian was feeling uncomfortable about her hand. It has been swollen for the last 2 days. Not knowing what it was (but thinking it was a bug bite) we headed to a doctor’s office just to get it checked out. To our surprise and Marians delight we saw all of the charges were on the wall.



After a short wait she saw the doctor to confirm the swelling is nothing to worry about and we went on our way.

To ease our nerves we went to get a taste of home and swung by the first Starbucks we’ve seen in weeks.

We headed to the Otago Museum. Here we saw more features on the Maori people and natural history. Our favorite item was the fossils of a sea monster called Plesiosaur.

After the museum we headed through the gardens to get to Baldwin Street. Along the way we found a rare plant the only blooms once in 25 years. Over the last few years it has grown a giant stem and is currently blooming! Our timing is impeccable! If you want to look up the plant is called an agave we believe.



We continued through the gardens finding yet another aviary. So we checked that out and made our way to Baldwin Street. Baldwin is the steepest street in the world (according to the Guinness Book of World Records and the sign). True or not, either way it was very very steep.