Day 7 Friday January 24th
Dunedin
We are only having the one day here and we want to see the wildlife on the Otago Peninsula. We went into central Dunedin on the bus in the morning but it was not that far and we walked back.
Buildings in central Dunedin
The cathedral was nice but not that big, it did have a very grand organ though. The information centre were very helpful and we booked trips to see the only mainland colony of Albatross in the world at 7 pm followed by a tour of Blue Penguins at 9pm.
From there we drove up to Signal Hill a former lookout point above Dunedin with some spectacular views.
We went to the Otago peninsular in the evening for our tours. We had to go at this time as you could only see the penguins at when it got dark when they came back from a day at sea. They are the smallest penquins in the world and very difficult to catch on film in the dark from 300 yards.
Young Albatross (adult wing span 3 metres)
'Raft' of Blue penguins returning to land after day at sea.
We saw the Chinese family now living in Auckland for the third time here. We first met them on the Doubtful Sound trip.
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