Saturday, January 22, 2011

Dunedin again - the Edinburgh of the South

Following on from a post a few weeks ago, I've trawled and sorted and processed images from my recent trip to Dunedin [Edinburgh of the South it's said].

Brighton Beach...
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Back at the classic Dunedin Railway Station...
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Ticket windows...
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Upstairs...
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Tourist...
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From across the tracks...
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Enough said...
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Wikipedia has a good article on the Railway Station

Enough of train stations, so off to the place the cities pioneers have ended up in...
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Their substantial contributions are housed in the Hocken Library and here one of the staff welcomes in a researcher...
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Nearby the look is more contemporary...
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Further north again [for those of you aware of the progression] Signal Hill sports a monument to those pioneers...
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Looking across the city from Signal Hill to the sunset and Saddle Hill [I presume?]...
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