More South Island Pictures

Here are a few more pictures from the bottom of the South Island (and beyond) before we head to the top of the North Island. And, by the way, it was rainy and cold during most of the trip, but those pictures don't usually make it to the blog.

Two tomtits loudly debating whose territory they are in. Notice the penguin tracks!

 

 Jack's blowhole in the Catlins. It is 55m(180ft) deep, 144m(472ft) long, 68m(223ft) wide, and 200m(656ft) inland from the sea. At high tide the sea water rushes through with tremendous force. 

  

A beautiful spot on the Otago Peninsula outside of Dunedin

We never tire of seeing the beautiful beaches!

This beach is completely off limits except once or twice a year when the DOC checks on the rare yellow-eyed penguins that live  here

 

 

 

We got a glimpse of a penguin chick in this nest. Lots of tracks and feathers near the nest

Royal Albatross

Royal Albatross chick about four months old. They are large!

Cormorants and their nests

Another fur seal