Catlins (south island)

The weather was still very wet and no sign of it improving, we arrived at the catlins and found this gorgeous farm hostel to stay at. It was so lovely and cosy, they had baby orphan lambs that we helped to bottle feed, we also went out with Ray the farmer around the farm on his truck with the working dog and helped round up the sheep, we was also gonna help out tailing the lambs but unfortunately the weather didnt improve while we was there so had to move on!! It was really interesting though and cant wait to find somewhere else like it!
Whilst at the Catlins we did manage to see some sights surprisingly!! We went for a walk down to Surat bay, we walked across the beach over to the headland and came across some more Sealions, it was really funny we was walking over to this massive one with a little one next to it and the little one got up and started chasing us, we ran off a little then stopped and then the sealion started chasing us again, it was really funny and they are actually quite fast! We also visited Nugget Point, there was a lovely lighthouse here and below us on the rocks where more sealions, its good to see them though dont think we'd ever get bored watching them, think its called Nugget point as it looks like there are a few nuggets sticking up out of the water?? We did want to do a 5hr walk along the Catlins river but again the weather let us down so we ended up at cannibal bay, apparently at some point some human remains where found here, we didnt see any thank god the seal was bad enough back at Surat!
In the evening after a bottle of wine, few games of yahtzee and just the one game of dominoes, we went down to see the glow worms, they was along this path and all over on the rock faces, they was just like little lights..really nice and pretty!