Coastal Otago

South Island

Coastal Otago

An oddity that works. The Scots did their best to tame the beast but wildlife still prevails. Get a hip flask of whisky, a kilt and stride the coast with purpose.

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View from Moeraki Lighthouse

Penguin + Seal Viewing. Time: From 20 mins to 1 hour

Okia

5 km return | 1 hour 30 minutes return

The University of Otago has temporarily closed this Aquarium facility to the public from Friday June 1, 2012.

Dunes at Sandymount

Sandfly Bay Track

Otago Peninsula

2.5 km return | 1 hour return

Shag Point / Matakaea

Yellow Eyed Penguins and Seal Viewing

Unrivalled wildlife viewing

albatross, penguins, seals & much more

Allans Beach from Sandymount

Sandymount Track

Lovers Leap and The Chasm

2.5 km return | 1 hour return

Viewing a New Zealand sealion.

Elm Wildlife Tours brings you New Zealand’s best wildlife tour – Judged New Zealand’s Best Leisure Activity.

Park on up, visit the Royal Albatross Centre and you may be lucky enough to spot an Albatross - or at least a black backed gull.... However the...

(Otago Peninsula Eco Restoration Alliance Limited)

The OPERA

The OPERA (Otago Peninsula Eco Restoration Alliance) is a private eco-reserve dedicated to conservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and education...

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Camping NZ App

All the great camping sites on your iPhone™, iPad™ or Android™ phone or tablet. Avoid camping penalties using this council approved app. Featuring offline maps.

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Tairoa Head Lighthouse

Pilots Beach

Tairoa Head - Little Blue Penguin Viewing

Watch little blue penguins come ashore at dusk

Penguin viewing

Bushy Beach

Penguin & Seal Viewing Hide

At the other side of the Oamaru harbour headland, a colony of endangered yellow-eyed penguins can be watched from a viewing hide at Bushy Beach...

Imagine.... a huge Royal Albatross with a three-metre wingspan gliding overhead, within metres from where you are standing....

Yellow eyed Penguins, Fur seals and Royal Albatross