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Day 8 Dunedin NZ - Railway Trip

 

Today was an even earlier start. 

 

At 7am alarm saw us both up and getting ready for our day of adventuring with Dunedin Railways. 

 

With our packed lunch and tickets we headed off to the railway station. We had decided to walk for a couple of reasons, but let’s go with it because it was fine, cool and possibly the only walking we would do today. 😉

 


Just a short 30 minute later and we arrived at the station. 

Our tour today was through the Taieri Gorge to Pukukerani and then returning to Dunedin. 

 


We boarded the train ready to depart and Robbie promptly fell asleep 🤣. 

 

Once we departed we were thoroughly entertained by Dave, who filled us in with what we were viewing and the history of places we were passing. 

 

Dave the tour guide and Liz

The scenery was quite stunning.   We crossed 3 viaducts, passed some old, and sometimes well maintained stations and houses. One of which had a heated bath down by the river - you just needed to light a fire under the tub. 




The journey passed through quite a few tunnels across some bridges and had some very sharp drop offs beside the tracks.
The hills had quite a bit of Boome, a yellow flowering plant that was introduced to NZ from Australia, and is now a pest. It looks nice from a distance because it has taken over a lot of areas.


In the gorge, the hills are quite different and have a lot of schist, an old volcanic rock which is now metamorphic.


Why people went up here was for the gold rush, and also for farming sheep. Before the railway they had to make their way with bullock trains over the rough hills and valleys.

Here is a short video of some sights along the way.



That's it for today. Tomorrow we are off again toward Invercargill this time - it's getting colder and some rain about too now.

Bye for now 
Rob & Liz








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