Dunedin and Penquin Place

Hi All,

Today we are visiting our last port in New Zealand, Dunedin.  We are sad to leave New Zealand, it is such a beautiful country.  This morning we took a short tour of downtown Dunedin.  We saw this beautiful church.

And the Dunedin train station. 

The train station has a floor with 750,000 tiles in it.  Here is one section of the floor.

A school for boys.

Then in the afternoon we went to Penquin Place which is a conservation reserve to protect the endangered Yellow Eyed Penguin.  The first place we went was the penguin hospital where injured penguins are nursed back to health.  We saw lots of penguins in the hospital.

This beach is part of the penguin habitat.  The beach is also home to seals.  The seals are not predators to the Yellow Eyed penguin.  The beach is closed to humans.

 

We planted two trees in the park to provide more habitat for the penguins. Here is one of our trees.  Maybe someday we can come back and see it.

So that was our day in Dunedin and Penguin Place.  We are now sailing towards Fiordland where we will go through three vary narrow sounds, they should be beautiful.  Bye for now.

Jer and Helen