Little Blue Penguins

Before we left Dunedin we spent time with family and then began the drive to Oamaru. On the way, we stopped at Moeraki, known for their boulders. Once we made it to Oamaru, our “house mum, Agra” at “Swaggers Backpackers” got us in her car and gave us a tour of the town. We went to Scott’s Brewery for dinner and made some friends from Dortmund, Germany who were dining at the table next to us. We rushed through our last beer to make it in time to see the Blue Penguins, also called Fairy Penguins, come in from their long day of fishing to their nests. These Blue Penguins are actually blue as their name suggests and are less than 1 foot tall. Its quite remarkable considering they swim up to 50km in a 25 km radius from home to fish every day, leaving at sunrise and returning at sunset. They came in 3 “rafts” and totaled 148 penguins that arrived to the colony. After the show we went exploring the town in search of more penguins. We found a few but I felt like we were disturbing them so we went back to the house.Read more