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Vast meadows of grass, hills, cows...and sheep! 🐐 ☺️ Yesterday (August 17) I was on a Cadbury Chocolate World-your, and Wyeth was the Cadbury Tour Guide - he was really fun, and we were given heaps of Cadbury Chocolate. The "Cadbury Fingers" though (which is actually the one Cadbury treat to which I am familiar) is made in Belgium. Or at least the chocolate is made in Belgium, the biscuit is made in the UK, I believe. We weren't allowed to bring any cellphones, or cameras, or bags, or anything, on the Cadbury Tour. Which means I had to give them my belly bag! 😮 When Wayne (one of the lovely hosts) had driven me back to the accommodation, Brenda (the other lovely host) and I set off to check the possum traps: the Otago Bay peninsula used to be possum-free, but somehow it isn't anymore, and since the possums eat the birds' eggs - nobody wants the possums. The possums are like ticks: good-for-nothing, nobody wants them. They have a sort of network across the peninsula, teamwork, and Brenda has 14 traps to check every week. This week I got to tag along. She has never let anybody tag along before. 😊 We found no possums, only three rats. Big rats! 🐭 And one sheep which suffers no more... We went up the hill, down the hill, into the forest, out of the forest, up on the top of the hill. It's amazing - on Otago Peninsula, the beauty knows no limits!: Look at their beautiful central train station 😍 Today, Thursday August 18th, I was on a trip to see the Royal Albatross - the world's only mainland colony, actually here on the peninsula. 😃 Big birds! And I got to see the blue penguin - the smallest penguin in the world, only around 30 centimetres high. They come up to the shore every night, and then they go back into the sea every morning: Chris McCormick, who works at the Royal Albatross Centre, and I ☺️: ☺️