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Oamaru Slideshow
Oamaru
Travel Blogs from Oamaru, New Zealand
East Coast
... for me. Tried to see penguins but they were all out to sea to feed during the day. Didn't get to surf in Oamaru like I wanted but no worries Australia will have plenty of that.Left the Canadians today flying back to Auckland and then to ...
The Moeraki Boulders
The boulders are found along a small streach of beach. The boulders slowly emerge from a low clay cliff and roll out onto the beach where they eventually crack open to reveal their hollow, honey-comb like ...
Sunrise at Moeraki Boulders
Having the whole of a huge stretch of beach first thing in the morning to see the sun coming up was great, so refreshing to have nobody else around. Hopefully we managed to capture some interesting shots of the beach....and these strange boulders which ...
Oamaru
... de Moeraki (bien curiosas, la verdad, bonita playa, misteriosa...) y luego a dormir fuera de la ciudad y llegando a Oamaru (lugar que arranca un “por fin una ciudad bonita”) donde afortunadamente, lo logramos!!! (cabezonería): primero ...
All this way for a little penguin
... breakfast and chatted with the other guests at TreLawn Place. It was a very pleasant way to start the day. Today our destination was Oamaru where we would visit the Blue Penguin Colony in time to see them come home after a long day at sea. We had ...
Les pinguins .....
... un bon backpacker (Chillawhile ): great place pour les artistes , musiciens etc ...... avec un jenga geant et des nuits pas cher , une bonne ambiance ..... si vous venez voir les pinguins a Oamaru , venez ici .. ...
Oamaru
Oamaru is unusual for New Zealand in that there are a large number of buildings made from Stone. Its also the home of the Whitestone Cheese ...
Oamaru Getaway
... We got there and it wasn't like a traditional one. I think it was a Christian version of a marae though. Obviously when New Zealand was settled, religion came as well and this kind of marae is the result of the mixing of the two traditions. ...
Noci jsou zde chladné
Včera jsme si zasurfovali v Omaru South, jenže Vojta pod sebou uviděl... prostě velkou rybu :-). Plavala od něj ke mě a zpátky a tak... A protože sme kluci z města, nevěděli jsme co to je, a tak ...
Hippiemum's Boulder Penguin Wrap
... drive to the south of the Otago Peninsula. We drive up a steep road leading to Larnach Castle. This is the only castle in New Zealand. It was built at the end of the 19th century, has been demolished, but restored and refurbished from the 1960s on. The ...
Onward, toward penguins
... with the guy sorting sheep in a field by where we parked the rental car. Turns out he owns the largest Texel sheep folk in New Zealand and he was sorting lambs to sell of since the rains hadn't come and he had to get some sheep off the fields that were ...
Dunedin to Oamaru
... are so cute to watch. Even full grown they look like penguin chicks as they are so small (no pics were allowed, sorry). Oamaru is a very odd but strangely attractive town where lots of Victorian and Edwardian buildings remain, some still in use, but all ...
To the Mountains and to the Coast
... pass was indeed deserted, see view from the top where we has a picnic in a howling gale and 24c. Got to Oamaru at 6:30pm, found B&B, got directions to penguin colony and a restaurant nearby, drove there, restaurant closed for private function, got ...
Penguins!
... to meadows and farm-land. We stopped at the Mount Cook lookout for lunch and got a very short glimpse of the summit as New Zealand's hight peak was hidden behind some passing low cloud, well 3700 metres! We made it to Oamaru at about 4pm and parked up at ...
Waianakarua
... 16. september - lidt med ost og pingvin Vi tog scenic route'en (magurit-ruten) fra Fairlie og til Oamaru, som tog os igennem New Zealands bakkede og "faarede" landskaw. Frokosten blev klaret i bilen, imens vi koerte, og bestod af lidt haandmadder ...
Our South Island camper van adventure begins.
... inquiring into renting something else.It took me 2 hours to feel more comfortable driving the van.We drove south toward Oamaru and met the others again at a New World supermarket in Temuka and stocked up for the next few days.We hit the road again ...
Moeraki Boulders are good
Drove from Surat Bay (which was very windy but interesting) to Moeraki. We did drive through Dunedin but it was wet and windy and we weren't inspired to stay so we carried on. Arrived in Moeraki at around 7.30pm and it was cold. Today ...
Gathering snacks and supplies
... find our first stop over. We weren't quite sure where we were going to stay the first night, but ended up in a Van park in Oamaru for the night. We went down to the cliffs to try and see some Yellow eyed penguins but only saw one trudging along the beach ...
Von Oamaru nach Dunedin (Stopp in Moeraki)
Am 7.1. sind mir vo Oamaru nach Dunedin greist. Öppe i de Mitti hämmer unbedingt en Stopp bi Moeraki gmacht, wo die Boulders (Runde Steine) am Strand verteilt sind. Die Entstehig vo dene Boulders isch en lange Prozäss über hunterti vo Jahre. Han nöd ...
Oamaru
Penguins were the theme for the day at Oamaru. We started by looking for some yellow-eyed penguins from a lookout over one of the beaches near the town (these penguins are very wary of humans and will not come ashore if they can see anyone about). We ...
Driving a lot
7 uur de wekker loopt af, ik werp een vlugge blik naar buiten en mijn vermoeden wordt bevestigd: alles is pottoe. Tja dan had ik vannacht toch juist gehoord dat het regende. Dus geen Hooker Valley of Red Tarn track, wandelen is het middel niet het ...
Penguin mission accomplished!
... to the pictures. Some of them had broken open which reminded me of giant eggs. Our destination on this drive was to be Oamaru, penguin town! This is another sleepy slow paced town with a population of around 12,000. The town focuses mostly on ...
Penguin mission accomplished!
... to the pictures. Some of them had broken open which reminded me of giant eggs. Our destination on this drive was to be Oamaru, penguin town! This is another sleepy slow paced town with a population of around 12,000. The town focuses mostly on ...
The Curling Champions
... looking for after settling into the hotel, as Scratch told us we'd be going curling. Apparently this is the town for curling in New Zealand, and for a small town they had a very impressive rink. We had a few practice stones before splitting into 2 team, ...
Penguins and (stone) elephants
... elephants" a cause de leur forme. Ils ont tourne a cet endroit des scenes du film "Les Chronique de Narnia". Une fois arrives a Oamaru, on a decide d'aller voir les pinguoins en soiree. C'est a ce moment la qu'on a le plus de chance de les voir, ...
Seals and Japanese
20th January We walked to Moeraki beach which is famous for the Moeraki boulders. These are huge boulders all of which of perfectly spherical , formed millions of years ago in the mud by layers of minerals building up around a piece of shell or bone like ...