After a good night’s sleep, we awoke to find this view from our cabin. We had arrived in Port Chalmers,the port of Dunedin. This is situated about 8 miles away from the city proper and requires a taxi or bus to get there. We hadn’t organised any trip here as after three days on the boat we wanted to stretch our legs a little.
The town of Dunedin itself has close historical links with Edinburgh, not only sharing the Gaelic name for the Scottish capital but also many of it’s streets have 
Scottish sounding names. The centre of the town is an eight sided plaza known as “The Octagon”, on one side of which stands Saint Paul’s Cathedral. The picture shows Sylvia on the steps of the cathedral. Inside they were celebrating a flower festival with arrangements at the end of the pews and various other locations throughout the church, like the one below.
Whilst in the town we visited the art gallery and also the railway st
ation , which is supposedly one of the most photographed buildings in the whole of New Zealand. Opened in 1906, the building was designed by George Troup. The building earned him, the nickname “Gingerbread George” from the detailing on the outside of the building. After returning to the ship for lunch we decided to walk around Port Chalmers in the afternoon and ended up in the magnificent church that overlooks the harbour.
Here we received a wonderful reception from the locals especially the organist who commenced playing requests. Amongst the tunes played were “Cwm Rhodda” and “The Londonderry Air” reflecting the fact that we had travelled so far. He incidentally had been playing the organ here for 63 years but I’m sure he will improve with practice.
Tonight's animal is (I think) a chicken or perhaps a peacock.
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