Wildlife

On friday afternoon, we went on a wildlife tour of the Otago Peninsula, near Dunedin. First, they took us out to the albatross center, which was really interesting. These birds have a wing-span that would make two of me, height-wise, and they can fly up to 120kph! They have a breeding center on the peninsula, so it’s really the only place in the world you can go to see them over land. They are usually flying over the ocean for months and months at a time. My photos aren’t that great, because they don’t show the scale of these huge birds, but you make do with what you can get!

Then, they took us on a long, winding gravel road up to a privately owned beach attached to a humongous farm. We walked down huge green hills covered in sheep and cattle down to the sandy beach, where we saw several dozing sea-lions:

We climbed up the dunes into a hide and watched yellow-eyed penguins returning from their day in the sea. It was very much like watching people come home after work.

I never imagined I would be seeing a scene that included both penguins AND sheep!

Home sweet home!

My Favorite:

Then we climbed back up the huge hille, then down another one, to the seal colony.

Sheep along the way.