Twizel down to Dunedin

We departed from Queenstown on Thursday as it was sucking every penny out of us with all it's tempting adventure activities. The weather has got a lot better (about 20 degrees yesterday) however if you are travelling down to the Milford Sounds you still need to carry snow chains with you, if you get caught without it's a $750 fine ouch! So we decided to head slightly up north again to visit Mt Cook or Aoraki as it is known in Mouri, which means Cloud Piercer. Aorkai is New Zealands highest mountain standing at over 3000mtrs, and is quite something to look at.
We left the Swedes behind and set off on our lonesome to a small town called Twizel just 50km south of Mt Cook. Twizel was almost like a town out of some horror film, we arrived at 4pm and there was not a soul in sight! Everything was shut(except the Shell garage), however despite the dullness of this town I have to hand it to them for coming up with the ingenious idea of combining wait for it....'Surf and Suds'! Now I hear you crying "whats so good about that?", but if you consider trying to find a internet cafe that actually sells coffee in New Zealand has been virtually impossible, especially in the smaller towns nevermind in Christchurch, so the idea of being able to do you laundry and your emails at the same time in simple out of this world! Anyway we stayed in a campsite called Twizel Tourist Park, which was extreamly good value at $22 a night,and that included power, hot showers and a hairdryer, fabulous!
We got up at our usual time of 9am and headed up to Mt Cook, which was still covered in snow so the views were amazing especially on the drive up to it as it overlooks a massive lake. We choose to do a walk and opted for the easy one which took about 2 hours return as there was a chill in the wind and we wanted to head on for Dunedin the same day which was about 450km away.
On route to Dunedin we stopped off at the Moeraki Boulders. If you haven't heard of these before, they are a weird phenomena. Randomly on the Moeraki Beach these compleatly almost perfectly spherical boulders have been formed. They haven't been washed up but have come out of the ground and the cliffs that line the beach. Some of these boulders are 2m in diameter, and are very strange, well worth a look if you are passing.

We arrived here in Dunedin at 7.30pm last night and checked into anouther holiday park, I think we're going to look for somewhere free tonight, they're not expensive but if you can get one for free it's much better. The free one we were staying on in Queenstown we later found out was a scene from 'Lord of the Rings', no wonder the veiws were so good!
Dunedin is a pretty university town and so far seems very pleasent. We have visited the Cadburys factory this morning,and found out some interesting facts.

1: Dream is only made here in Dunedin and is the only real white chocolate.
2: The reason why there is a difference in taste is because of the milk that is used. In New Zealand Dairy Milk is made from milk from the Otago region. In Britain it's made from British milk, presumably from somewhere around Birmingham and in Oz it's made from mostly powdered milk because they don't produce as much milk.
we are now heading up to the 'Worlds Steepest St' after this.
Well that's about it so far, we will update you soon.

Pollyali xxx

Mum and Dad - I am sending a package home today with Loz's pressie and some other artifacts for you.