We headed south towards the Catlins. This trip meant a bit of driving with lots of stop offs at beaches. Our first stop was Slope point, the most southerly part of main land New Zealand. Here we found a lighthouse made in Scotland, Mum and dad soon realised although they had travelled for days they had arrived in a place with lots of similarities to Scotland. Next we stopped at Curio bay with a petrified forest - fossilised trees. I had expected to see these standing in the water but actually it is a horizontal petrified forest.... more excitingly there were some penguins hopping about on the beach. Unfortunately this was where mum and dad discovered the other similarity to Scotland....the midges cousin, the sandfly, which loved Dad!! They had us hopping about all over the place so we moved round the headland to porpoise bay where we watched the waves crashing against the rocks, and the sealions crashing about the campsite.
That evening we stayed near the cathedral caves where we would visit in the morning....
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