Kingsgate Brydone Oamaru
115 Thames St. Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelKingsgate Brydone Oamaru
All this way for a little penguin
We woke up to cloudy, overcast skies. The beautiful weather of the past two days was history! We enjoyed a delicious full cooked 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 …
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More animal spotting
Thursday 24/11/2011 Needed to do a little food shop in Dunedin before leaving, Roscoe got shirty at my indecisiveness when parking in the car park as always. Then we left Dunedin to make our way to Glencoe reserve just outside Waianakarua, on the way we stopped in Palmeston to have a look in a pretty little gift shop (Roscoe not impressed), then at Shag point. At first I just wanted to take a picture of the sign, but when we got there it was a lovely(but windy) little ...
Mt Cook, Penguins & Old Bones
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We get to Oamaru – which is halfway between the equator and the South Pole - some time in the afternoon. I really like this town. It is quirky and has character and a wide mix of people. Mike, our driver, makes some derogatory comment about the town having bogens, I think he calls them. He describes the women as having kids hanging all over them and I forget how he describes the men. It is not very flattering. I actually find ...
Dunedin to Oamaru
... Moeraki. We had heard about this area because of Fleur's Restaurant, which has featured in a number travel shows we have seen. We had not made a booking but were keen to see the area. It certainly is a lovely quiet little bay, and the restaurant was busy. Lunch at the tavern, with a view of the bay and a friendly host did us very well.
The ...
Penguin day
... from clothing to rugs, stuffing to house isolating… the list goes on. We got to watch one getting shorn, both with the electrical cutter and the hand scissors. A sheep shearer here works 8 hours a day, shearing an average of 200 sheep every day, at 1.80 NZ$ a sheep (Yes, that’s two sheep every 5 minutes). Unless he uses the old hand scissors, that way he will 'only’ go through 100 sheep a day. The old technique leaves the sheep with a little bit more ...
