Feeling a little lazy and just because we can, we had a lie in and didn't leave the campsite till around 10.30am. We were still on the way to Dunedin today for the chance of some more penguin spotting and a bit of nightlife. Along the way the radio told us about the Moeraki Boulders, which are calcite formations strewn along the beach. They are made similar to a pearl, just a piece of rock, bone or wood where calcium has built itself up over millions of years to form a crust around the object. Some of them are a meter across and have ended up being washed up onto the beach. The Maori people believed that they were giant food baskets washed up from a Gods wrecked canoe. Further down the coast we came to a place called "Shag Point", which we found rather amusing, so we went to check it out. Turns out the name comes from the amount of Shags there are there (Shags as in the birds!) and there are a lot . There was also quite a few fur seals sunning themselves on the rocks which we got great views of.    We eventually arrived in Dunedin at around 2pm, at a campsite 4km out of the city in a place called Leigh Valley. We had been dodging the rain all morning but it had finally caught up with us and had set in for the rest of the day. We decided the best thing to do was to sit and have a brew and a Tim Tam. That evening we went out for a meal and a couple of quiet drinks, which inevitably turned into rolling in at 3am a little worse for wear. The plan for the next day was to go to The Otago Peninsular, just east of Dunedin, to check out the wildlife. But I was in no fit state to do anything, and was ill all day, so we ended up staying an extra night in Dunedin. During the night we seemed to have picked up a little passenger, who had left us presents all over the work top and in the draws. He also ripped a hole in the bin, and nibbled a hole out of Mel's Cocoa Butter moisturiser. We had a mouse. So the morning was spent re-stocking on food and fuel ready for our trip out to the Catlins and finding a solution to our little problem. We made it to the peninsular later that morning and went to check out the Northern Royal Albatross observatory. Its the only mainland place in the world where Albatross nest. We could have gone on a tour where we would of seen chicks on the nest and possibly adults coming into feed them, but as we didn't really want to pay to see wild animals, and we fancied our chances of seeing one from the car park for free, we didn't bother. Instead we had a lunch of olives, sun dried tomatos, feta cheese, crackers and dips in the warmth of our camper looking out onto the sea from the car park. As it happens we saw several Albatross out to sea gliding across the waves. You can also see yellow eyed penguins on the peninsular, if you pay $50 each for the pleasure! But we had been told about a free place called Nugget Point, where if you were lucky and conditions were right it was possible to see them. So after a coffee at a hill top cafe looking out over the Pacific Ocean, we took the high road back to Dunedin and headed off south towards the Catlins and Nugget Point. It was a little more of a mission to get to Nugget than we thought and it was nearly dark by the time we got into the viewing hide. We thought we'd be too late and the penguins would be in bed, but, 5 mins after getting there we saw a little shape shuffling out the water closely followed by another one. We'd seen our first wild penguins and they just happen to be the rarest in the world! To say Mel was excited was an understatement. After half an hour of watching them we left them to it, but not before seeing another one pop out of the sea. We still had to find our camp site as we'd chosen a DOC site for the night. It was down a gravel road which felt like it went on for ever! We ended up coming down to a beach, really in the middle of no where, and we were on our own! It was slightly creepy but once you close all the curtains in the camper you feel like your in your own little bubble. It was a clear starry night and seeing as we were so far south, and it was the right time of year we thought we may catch a glimpse of the southern lights, but no such luck.