Oamaru
Although the Yellow Eyed Penguin
and the Blue Penguin also live on the Otago Peninsula we travelled all
the way up to Oamaru to see them there. It might sound a bit Dutch, but
it was free in Oamaru and more natural then in Otago.
The Yellow Eyed Penguin is an endangered bird, because it lives in bushy
coastal areas. They more or less love the same habitat as we humans do
and that is very problematic if you are only 70 cm high and don't have
hands to fight the humans.
The Yellow Eyed Penguin has
more similarities with us humans. Early in the morning they go out for
the day to gather food. They jump into the sea and swim for miles and
miles to catch fish and then just before dusk they come back ashore. We
were there waiting from a sheltered place to see them come in. It's very
cute the see this small penguin torpedoing towards the beach, swim up
to it and then get on its feet and waddle into the bush and up the hill.

This is were Yellow Eye Penguin lives.
Would you like to live here?

It is strange to believe but these penguins
live up on a hill. They manage to walk up without the use of hands to
hold on.
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