Bella Vista Motel Oamaru

... 1511;טו 12;יאנית - Victorian Heritage Week

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... buildings and learning about the local history, including the town cemetery which our guide described as the “dead center of town.” At dusk, we went to Bushy Beach to watch the Yellow-eyed penguins return from their day at sea to feed their chicks. The Yellow-eyed penguins are among the world’s rarest. We saw 6 of them; there are only 30 of them that nest in the area. Bob was able to get some photos from our ...

... itself was quite wide and reminded me of the wide roads that are common in the centre of towns in America. What made Oamaru slightly different was the "Victorian area" nestled away in the corner of the town. This area had various old style buildings dotted about, illuminated in pastel shades at night giving it a slightly haunted look. The main street in this Victorian area had on the corner a small hotel called the ...

... up truck to and from the field. * Home cooked cakes for morning tea break *Getting paid (even a little money coming is a nice change to the normal out bound flow *As many strawberries as you can eat without anyone noticing (which is alot). Thats about it for highlights but it was not bad as jobs go, apart from the sore knee's, it was blissfully stress free, we had good weather and the people were nice, it was fairly boring but it was only 3 ...

... it was a sign that she should buy it and took it over to Fleur, who explained she had started to sign it for someone else but had spelt their name incorrectly, however she knew that one day someone with that name would come along. So, in addition, she wrote "you are the one - thanks for finding us in this small part of Aotearoa. Nau mai, haere mai'. Maybe it was just meant to be.......

... So I grabbed Jackie and we followed them. There was a penguin very close to the track that had climbed up the cliff and was resting in the bushes. It was the first time (but not the last) that we got so close to a yellow eyed penguin, and we were in awe. In the course of the night we saw various others come to shore. The best part was watching their walk, or waddle really. They seemed like very old ...

... went here, and ate cheese... we purchased two cheeses which we ate in the car with crackers and pepperoni... YUM! 3. NZ Malt Whiskey Company - this was a treat for me especially as i like the taste of single malt whiskey. not only did i get to sample four or five different types, but i also got to learn a bit as well... did you know that Scotch is basically single malt whiskey made in Scotland? only whiskey from scotland is called scotch ...

Oamaru was not what we expected. I thought I had mastered reading between the lines of our Lonely Planet, but alas, once again we had been led astray. I pictured a quaint little seaside town, with mischevous little penguins waddling around everywhere. After all that was the lure, Oamaru, the so-called penguin capital of New Zealand. Roll up roll up to see the little critters. What we got instead was a bog standard kiwi town full of Mickey Ds and chain stores. To ...

... a few metres away rather than a couple of feet, because there were several of us there, making it nervous. The guide was happy to help photograph it with care; no problem. The Blues, however, are in an organised colony. That is to say, there's a grandstand, lights, loudspeakers for a commentary . . . and no photography. OK, I get it: the fifty or so people there had forty flashguns between them and little control of when ...

En daar ben ik dan eindelijk: nummerro 2 van mijn 2 "must do's" in NZ (de eerste was White Island): mijn Janet Frame Town en haar "Kingdom by the Sea". Eindelijk ga ik eens zien waar mijn favouriete boeken van deze Nieuw Zeelandse schrijfster nu echt over gaan!

Ik was vroeg in Oamaru en besloot om eerst eens naar de pinguïn kolonie hier te rijden. Oamaru staat bekend om de enorme kolonie Blue Pinguins die ze hebben en ik wilde ook deze beestjes eigenlijk wel ...