best places to see penguin breeding colonies in Australasia

["Karen" <>]

I found the Yellow-eyed penguin tour on the Otago Peninsula  (Sth Island, 
NZ) fantastic.   You tour the colony site through specially built 
camouflaged tunnels with unobtrusive viewing of them around their nestboxes. 
They also have a trench out to the beach so you can watch the penguins 
surfing in, and on our occasion, virtually tip-toeing past snoozing seals 
laid out on the beach.
http://www.penguin-place.co.nz/intro.html

And, just down the road from there is the only mainland breeding colony of 
albatross - The Royal Albatross Colony at Tairaroa Head.
http://www.albatross.org.nz/colony.htm

The whole of the Otago Peninsula was the highlight of a two week family tour 
of the South Island.  Loved it.  Seals, penguins and birds all over the 
place!
Cheers,
Karen.


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