Omaru...land of the Penguins

We left Dunedin in the morning and we had to stop at the steepest street in the Guiness book of world records,  Baldwin Street.  Was good at first then it started to increase in grade and the walk got hard.  After the whole day of walking and sand dune climbing the day befor let me tell you this was not going to feel good.  Ray started, I watched........then I better do a bit of this at least.   Ray said write I went half way but I believe it was further than half.
We left and went onwards towards Moeraki, which is home to the Moreaki boulders.  We parked and walked along a nice hard sand beach 10min.'s or so then we stopped to check out these cool round boulders.  Different reasons why they may have formed and Ray and I will go with the scientific version, seems more plausable then the tall tale.  Went to the cafe for some drinks and snack and made our way back for some campervan lunch.
We drove onto Omaru which had one tourist trap but it's a good one, the yellow eyed penguin and the smallest penguin in the world "the blue penguin".   The buildings in this area are really neat, mostly made out of limestone and sort or eery I thought, very Victorian feeling architechture.  We booked our time in the evening to see the blue penguins and the yellow eyed penguins you can go see on your own for free.    So we booked in to our site relaxed, ate and got dressed warm for the evening outdoors viewing all the penguins.  We headed out late afternoon to see the yellow eyed penguin.
When we arrived there were alot of tourists lined up along the railing all trying to get a glimpse of the little guys.  We walked along the path, waited, then a nice gentleman was lending out binoculars to people to view them coming in and along the bushes.  When we looked through them we saw quite a few, most of the crowd had dispursed also so it was nice as the night was creeping upon us.  Ray gave me a wave from afar and I walked down the path to meet him and realized there was a penguin right below the rail in the bush.  Very cute and very cool to see one so close.  The nice gentleman with the binoculars informed us all the be quiet and respectful, to try not to disturb them.  Meanwhile some tourist thougth we were at the movies or something and started eating chips, stupid.  We took lots of pictures watched for a long while then made our way to the place to watch the blue penguins.
Again lots of tourists, this is a pretty popular thing to see here.  We checked in and made our way out to the bleachers in the windy cold air along the ocean.  The announcer went over some information about the penguins and to do's and not to do's.  Around 8:20 the first raft, which is about 25 to 40 penguins in one bunch shaped like a raft, came in.  The little cuties scrambled up onto the rock ramp slowly, fighting the waves, when they all collected together they all wobbled up to the shore into there  manmade habitat for breeding just by the rock cliff.  We watched a couple rafts come in and make there way home for the night then we called it a night it was pretty chilly out.  These penguins are very cute and fun to watch.
The next day we pack up again and make our way onwards, we weren't sure where at first then decided to make our way to Christchurch, which is our last stop in our adventure in New Zealand.