Am nächsten Tag stand das Otago Museum auf dem Plan.
Ein wirklich sehr gutes Museum, in dem wir fast den ganzen Tag verbacht haben. (The Otago museum was up for today and we've spend almost an entire day in it. Well its huge and one of the best...)

Maori-Ausstellung (Maori exhibition, I took this picture because we hardly ever saw a couple embracing each other in Maori art):

a warrior in full armour, which is made of shells, weeds, shark teeth and more things you can find on an island

Tierausstellung (plenty of animals were on display):

a possum, which is quite cute although being dead. It's not like we don't see plenty of them, it's just that most of them are quite flat and very close to the road

People over the world exhibition (Ausstellung). This is an ivory figurine of the Daoist God of Longevity - Shoulao. There is a very interesting story to it you might want to look up at wikipedia.

Marine exhibition (Ausstellung) in the back are the bones of a whale:

the U.S.S Constitution and many other ship models could be seen

Das tollste für mich! Spielerisch lernen *g* (carina jumped into a bed of moveable nails and left an imprint)

Die Schmetterlingsausstellung war sehr beeindruckend. In einem riesen Gewächshaus bei weit über 30 Grad gab es viele lebende Schmetterlinge zu bewundern (a special exhibition in the museum was the rain forest, they had hundreds of different butterflies in all sizes and colors):

Niedliche Schildkröten- das dachte ich in diesem Moment zumindest noch!!! (those cute turtles were quite hungry)

Schmetterlinge bei der Paarung auf einem Stein neben den Schildkröten.
Und dann passierte das Grausame! Die Schmetterlinge wurden von der Schildkröte eiskalt aufgefressen!!!!!!! Ich konnte gar nicht hinschauen- Natur kann echt grausam sein.
Also Leute, immer schön aufpassen, wenn ihr es euch in der Natur gemütlich macht ;o)
(and those butterfly's are quite happy with what they are doing. Too bad they were not very careful, when they came too close to the turtles one of them snapped them underwater and well... you can imagine the end of the story)


some butterfly's were resting on leaves, fruits and flowers

Regelmäßig spielen ist wichtig! (carina feels at home in the learn by playing section)

Auf dem Rückweg ging es noch an dem Bahnhof von Dunedin vorbei. Laut Aussage des I-Site Mannes das Gebäude, das am häufigsten fotografiert wird/wurde in Neuseeland. (According to an i-Site employee is this the most photographed building in New Zealand, the rail road station in Dunedin)