Wednesday morning at 3:30am, (with some cookies, energy drinks, our cameras, and some freshly baked banana bread) Alan Dean and I started [great] walking to Peggys Hill to catch the sunrise. Basically, our walk took us out of North Dunedin, along Otago Harbour, and into the peninsula. Perfect Night (not too chilly, clear skies, good company, stars everywhere, sleepy city lights reflecting off the water, etc etc) = The Universe was most definitely on our side :) So couple hours and twelve miles later, we finally made it to the top of Peggys Hill. On your left, you could see the Otago Harbour and on your right was the Pacific Ocean. It was AWESOME and the sunrise was marvelous.
Thursday morning at 7:00am, Tim, Alan, and I met up to go find the sunrise from Mount Cargill. Mount Cargill is meant to be the highest point in Dunedin and I had never been there before so I was really glad to be able to go. Anyways, after driving around in Serena for a bit and getting a little lost, we finally found the right road to take us up to the top of Mount Cargill. We were so close to almost missing it, but Tim is a pretty great driver in these situations and we charged up and around the mountain and made it just in time to see the clouds getting all nice and pink - PERFECTION :)
Friday morning at 6:00am, Tim, Paul, Liz, Jenny, Alan, Tamara, and I met up to go find the sunrise at the Moeraki Boulders. I had been there a couple weeks ago when my family was visiting but DANG, Sunrise Was SO COOL!! Like seriously, beyond beautiful... I dunno, the ocean and the sky and the boulder just looked so nuts and awesome. I'm not doing the greatest job describing this, so you'll just have to look at pictures or just go and see for yourself.
Three Days, Three Sunrises... It's really neat to be able to see the sunrise over the Pacific Ocean. Highly recommend that if you do ever have that chance, don't miss it.
Other than all that, I've just been hanging out/staying alive/enjoying brief periods of warm weather. Had an exam Friday that I think went pretty well, so that's good... and that means that school is over!! Went to the All Blacks vs. Wales game last night, really really fun night (slash we saw the Haka live which was SICKK).
New Zealand = good times. Five months went by REAL Fast. Peacing out in 4 days. Fiji Sunshine Time for a bit. Then California Summer Goodness for July. Hell yeah
I'M EATING BANANA BREAD RIGHT NOW! Unfortunately it's not homemade. It's made at the supermarket next door, so it's next-door-made. It's pretty tasty. We'll make homemade banana bread this summer. I have a recipe. If you have a recipe as well, we can make homemade banana bread twice. Or make them both at once and then live off of banana bread at Yosemite: Banana bread for breakfast, banana bread sandwiches for lunch, banana bread...casserole? for dinner, and of course banana bread muffins for desert.
ReplyDeleteI have had vague plans to climb up to the blockhouse (http://dostuffct.com/activity/devils-peak/kings-block-house) for sunrise. This post has motivated me to make it happen. I'll tell you about it soon when I GET TO SEE YOU! YAY!