Cape Wanbrow, Bushy Beach and penguins

After a little break at the hostel I made my way up the hill to the Cape Wanbrow walkways from where you have an excellent view on Oamaru as well as the Pacific. I walked once around the cape and then continued to Bushy Beach, a place where you can find yellow-eyed penguins, that are actually rarer then the blue ones, if you are lucky. According to the tourist information there are currently only two birds coming to the beach every evening. Well, I was not lucky enough to see them, but the beach was nice anyway and there was a seal as well as some birds I could watch with my binoculars. Before 8 pm I went back to town and to the blue penguin colony. I had decided to go directly to the colony, the place where you have to pay to watch them. I do not regret it, it was worth it. It is something different, to see some sixty penguins coming to the shore in groups of about thirty birds than one or two outside the colony closer to town where we were the day before. They are really cute when they come on land and then try to make their way up through the rocks through their nests. They even had to transcend two "obstacles" - a seal as well as later on a shag were resting in the middle of their way up which scared the one or other penguin. Unfortunately, it is not allowed to take pictures at the colony. Seeing the penguins was a great end of the day, though.Read more