Dunedin pronounced "Din -e- din"

After our breathtaking adventure to Milford Sound we made our way towards Dunedin, know for surfing, shopping, bars/cafes, cadbury chocolate factory and Speight's Brewery.   The drive was not all that interesting, but we got there in good time, good enough time to at least fit in the chocolate factory tour.  I mean if you have to pick one to try first might as well be all about chocolate.  When we first drove near it you could smell the chocolate, smelt so good.
We started the tour and the lady gave us some sweet head wear and beard one for Ray since he had not shaved in a few days.   hahahahah!!! Lookin' good honey!  The tour took us through some of the workings of the factory but who really was listening when all you wanted was more chocolate.  If you answered her questions right she gave you free chocolate.  There was a chocolate shot and even for me it was hard to swallow, was very rich tasting.  The only really cool part was the chocolate waterfall, 1 tonne of liquid chocolate falling 3 stories in 30 seconds, loud but smelled good and it splattered the stairs with gooey goodness. After the tour we thought we had enough so did not buy anymore in the store, but later as we got back to the van quickly realized that the ones they give you are not the best by far.  So guess we will have to stop by store again on the way out for some more.
We needed some groceries so did that and headed to our campervan site for the night.  Met a nice older Australian couple that love to travel and have been it sounds like for some time.  Had fun chit chatting with them, got excited to go to Australia next.  We woke the next morning to a nice sunny day and drove to the beach near by and watched some surfers try a few waves.  Pretty cool, looks like alot of waiting for the right place and wave to come about, and cold too.
We decided to continue on down the peninsula and see Lanarche castle, kinda nice but expensive for what it is.  We will see better in Europe so....then we made our way to the beach where you can penguin watch, but first you must climb down a steep sand dune and walk the beach littered with giant sealions.  Uhhh....sounds ok until after we made it down I realized we have to go back up later.
A long nice walk on the beutiful sand beach trimed wiht rugged roacks and crashing waves, we walked all the way down the the end making sure to give the sea lions a wide berth. We got to the penguin hide stood around abit and quickly realised we times it way wrong, they come ashore near sundown and it was mid afternoon. Dodging the sea lions on the way back we got to the ever daunting sand dunes we had to climb out. 2 steps forward, slide down one... this is going to be along climb. After finaly cresting the top, sore legs and out of breath, we took one last look down to aknowledege our acompleshment... or stupidity... depending how you look at it :p
Back at the van we drove around a bit on the peninsula and made our way back into town, we hitup the Speight's brewery to sign up for a tour, we just missed one so we headed out on the town for a few hours to check it out, we walked through a public art gallery, walked around to a few shops, stoped at Mc Cafe to update the blog and check the emails, we just happend to be near the Cadbury chocolate factory so we stoped in to top up our supplies. Walked down the the train station which is apperently the second most photografed building in the world next to the Sydney opera house.  Making our way back to the brewery we hung out for a bit until it was time for the tour. The tour was pretty cool, had a nice guide and they place was setup really cool for tours, when we reached the pub, we se toff on the tasting. Unlike the Moteith's brewery we did on the other coast whose beer was good across the board, Speight's is not, there is one good beer one ok beer and the rest are not to our liking. After being a bit buzzed as they let you pour your own as much as you like in the short time you were allowed in the bar we headed down the street for a decent pub style meal to to fill our bellys, drove to our van site and settled in for the night.