We are in the Scottish Heritage town of Dunedin. The town is mainly on the flat parts at the bottom of the hillsides, but the houses are up the hillsides. They are reported to have the steepest street in the Southern Hemisphere. They also have a Cadbury Chocolate Factory which we visited. It is quite a shipping port. The town was started in 1848 and grew very fast after gold was discovered in 1861. Today about 123,000 live here. They have a wildlife preserves, a castle and The University of Otago which was started in 1869. Today we enjoyed watching a group of bagpipers lead the graduates and families in the walk down the Main Street that had been closed off for the celebration! Very exciting. Bill, Harry Finch and Jay Coyne went in a local bar and help toast the new grads. When we first arrived in the town, it was very quiet. But the town came to life with the graduation, the farmers market, a crafts and gifts outdoor market and all sorts of people moving about. We enjoyed our Dunedin visit!
Dunedin train station
Bagpipers leading grads
Cadbury Chocolate Factory Candy Mountain
Bar Bill,et al toasted the grads
-Marilyn
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