Southern Scenic Route Through The Catlins

Today is blog day for me, so I can update everyone on what I've been doing and seeing here in New Zealand. Last week I took a 4 day, 3 night road trip from Queenstown down south through the Catlins via the Southern Scenic Route, which runs along the southern coast of the South Island. Most of the time it was raining or hailing or really cold. So I didn't get to stop everywhere I wanted to. But it was still a nice trip. On the third day, it hailed in the morning, and got sunny and warm in the afternoon! I tell you, the weather here is so strange. I thought San Francisco was bad when it came to 4 season days--this place is even more extreme. So the pictures below are from random stops I made in the Catlins area.















Here's a picture of a sea lion just hangin' out on the rocks in the Catlins.