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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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that dot the landscape. Off on the water side are plenty of places to
tie up a boat, or take one out for a cruise. The whole Peninsula is nice,
and definitely worth a visit, if in Dunedin.

I arrived at the penguin reserve a litle early, so I first went to check
out a nearby beach. No one was swimming in the water (too cold probably),
but there were a few people relaxing on the white sand, reading books, and
getting tans. The most amazing thing was that joining the people on the
beach were a couple of seals -- quietly keeping to themselves, and relaxing
right at the edge of the sand. As I watched, one seal soon became three,

then two more came and joined the group. No one bothered the seals, and the
seals didn't seem to mind the people. They just dozed off right there on
the sand in front of everyone, enjoying a lazy afternoon alongside the
humans.
After watching the seals, I made my way back to the penguin reserve. The
reserve is an interesting place. It was founded by a man who wanted to give
the rare yellow-eyed penguins of the area a safe place to live. It's funded
completely by private donations, and money from the tours. What the reserve
does, is set aside a large area of protected land, then set up small penguin
"houses" for the penguins to live in. Many of the materials that the
penguins would normally use as "natural" homes have been destroyed over the
years, so until nature can replenish such things, the artificial houses have
worked quite well. Some of the penguins have even made homes out of things
that were not meant to be used as such (such as lookouts for the tourists).
While on the tour, you can get pretty close to the penguins by observering
them from small huts that have been camouflauged so as not to bother the
penguins too much. That day, we saw a lot of penguins wandering around,
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