Though it was already getting late, Tisa and I decided to drive out to the tip of the Otago peninsula, just east of Dunedin. It's about a 30 or 40 minute drive all the way out there and though we did our best to make it before sundown, we weren't quite successful.
Just when we were about to leave, one of us noticed a small blue penguin in the distance. I naturally followed it so that I could get some pictures in it's natural habitat (only to find later that this is strongly discouraged).
As we started to leave we rolled down the windows and heard what sounded like hundreds of babies crying. We didn't know it just then, but this was the Dunedin blue penguin colony - a safe haven for blue penguins.
