After breakfast and checking out of the motel, our plan was to quickly visit Baldwin Street before leaving Dunedin for Te Anau.

Baldwin Street is known as the steepest street in the world, and I wanted to walk up it.

While at Baldwin Street, we met a local resident, Dave Kernahan, who currently holds the record for the most times climbing up the hill.  He climbs this hill 30 times per day, and the souvenir shop at the base of the street has posted a number of newspaper articles about his frequent hill climbs.

After climbing the hill with Dave, he offered to show us some of his favourite parts of Dunedin that tourists rarely find.

After winding our way up a series of narrow gravel roads, we found ourselves looking at the best vistas in the area.  The following photos were taken from on top of the hill that holds Dunedin’s television and radio transmitter.  I thought our views yesterday from Lanarch Castle were good, but from this location, we could actually see the entire Otago Peninsula, which takes over an hour to drive along, including the castle and penguin beach we visited the day before.

Unfortunately, after spending a few unplanned hours touring the area with our new friend, it was time to head for Te Anau.  We probably could have spent an extra day or two in Dunedin, but that will have to wait for a future trip.

The drive to Te Anau took about four hours, and took us past countless sheep farms, as well as a fair number of farms raising cattle and deer.

As we got closer to Te Anau, the skies began to get cloudy, and it looked like we were in for rain tomorrow.  Of course, in this part of the country, rain is generally expected.

Once in Te Anau, we gassed up the truck and checked in to our accommodations.  We had a nice little one-bedroom cottage in the country, a few miles out of town.