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Oamaru Pages by kenmerk
| Page Views: 2,224 Last Visit to Oamaru: December, 2002 | Oamaru, Penguin Country... by kenmerk - last update: May 28, 2003 |
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|  | Well, I have to say that Oamaru is a town that is certainly worth visiting....
It has two nearby penguin colonies (one blue penguins and one of the endangered yellow eyed penguins) and also an interesting historic downtown section.
You can have your whole day layed out for you here. Visit the downtown section during the afternoon, then head over to the yellow eyed penguin colony at about 5 PM. Here you can sit in the penguin blind and watch a few hit the beach on their way home.
I would then highly recommend the guided tour down into the restricted nesting area. The guide will take you right up to a couple of the nests where it is easy to take close up pictures of the penguins nesting...
Head back to town for some dinner and buy a bottle of wine... After dinner, at about 9:30 PM, its about time for the Blue Penguins to start coming back in... Sit back and enjoy a few glasses of wine as you watch the little guys invade the beach...
It does make for an enjoyable (and full) day in Oamaru... |
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dragontml Fri Jan 16, 2004 09:14 UTC
hhmmm, yellow eyed penguins, i saw in dunedin and it was much fun watching these little guys.....;-) only had a lunch stop at oamaru and it looked like a very historical town. | Bwana_Brown Sun Dec 7, 2003 05:45 UTC
Interesting penguin facts - never knew about this place! Also, looks like very interesting architecture in the town! I would love to visit NZ!!! | pepples46 Sat Sep 27, 2003 09:35 UTC
delightful, absolutly delightful .....and Janet Frame grew up here in Oamaru, NZ most famous contemporary writer...HaPpY BiRtHdAy Kenny:-) the white pengie ..ya missed :-( | Guantanamera Sat Sep 27, 2003 01:45 UTC
An economy based on penguins and pretzels... Interesting... |
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