Dunedin City & Wildlife Tour
Half day Tour
Bus out early-afternoon along the scenic roads of the Otago Peninsula.
Enjoy a 90 min guided tour of the Penguin Place Conservation Reserve. Their guides will explain why the beautiful, quirky Yellow Eyed Penguin is the most endangered in the world, found only on the South East Coast of New Zealand. This is a great chance of seeing them in the wild!
Hear about the conservation & volunteer work in place to ensure the survival of this special species, A portion of your ticket cost goes directly back into helping efforts continue on in to the future. (the penguins have had another tough breeding season, viewing is not guaranteed).
A short bus ride over the farm takes small groups to the reserve, where your guide will lead you on foot
through unique covered trenches into viewing hides. These allow close viewing and photography of
the breeding behaviour and chicks of this shy penguin (Viewing is varied depending on the time of year).
Next you'll board our Wildlife Cruise around Taiaroa Head, the worlds only mainland nesting place of Royal Albatross.
Whilst cruising you'll watch as NZ Furseals play and swim near their breeding colonies, out at sea you
can spot up to 20 species of rarely seen ocean birds including other albatross species and petrels,
and you may see penguins, dolphins and other marine mammals.
Cruise the length of the Otago Harbour back to the city, our skipper will show you Careys Bay historic
fishing village, the busy working wharves of Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour’s beautiful bays, hills and farmland.
Summer:
1:30pm - 7:00pm
(bus out/cruise back to city)
Winter:
1:00pm - 6:00pm
(cruise out/bus back to city)
Full day tours available - please enquire
Bus out early-afternoon along the scenic roads of the Otago Peninsula.
Enjoy a 90 min guided tour of the Penguin Place Conservation Reserve. Their guides will explain why the beautiful, quirky Yellow Eyed Penguin is the most endangered in the world, found only on the South East Coast of New Zealand. This is a great chance of seeing them in the wild!
Hear about the conservation & volunteer work in place to ensure the survival of this special species, A portion of your ticket cost goes directly back into helping efforts continue on in to the future. (the penguins have had another tough breeding season, viewing is not guaranteed).
A short bus ride over the farm takes small groups to the reserve, where your guide will lead you on foot
through unique covered trenches into viewing hides. These allow close viewing and photography of
the breeding behaviour and chicks of this shy penguin (Viewing is varied depending on the time of year).
Next you'll board our Wildlife Cruise around Taiaroa Head, the worlds only mainland nesting place of Royal Albatross.
Whilst cruising you'll watch as NZ Furseals play and swim near their breeding colonies, out at sea you
can spot up to 20 species of rarely seen ocean birds including other albatross species and petrels,
and you may see penguins, dolphins and other marine mammals.
Cruise the length of the Otago Harbour back to the city, our skipper will show you Careys Bay historic
fishing village, the busy working wharves of Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour’s beautiful bays, hills and farmland.
Summer:
1:30pm - 7:00pm
(bus out/cruise back to city)
Winter:
1:00pm - 6:00pm
(cruise out/bus back to city)
Full day tours available - please enquire