VISITING PENGUIN PLACE, DUNEDIN
About Penguin Place :: Welcome  to our Yellow-Eyed Penguin Conservation Reserve, New Zealand's multi award winner.  The conservation project was started in 1985 by Howard McGrouther and he and his family still run it today.  The project is entirely funded  through guided tours.

OUR TOURS :: offer a very special experience.  Walk through our constructed trenches allowing you to be at eye level and only feet away from nesting, yellow-eyed penguins.  There are no age restrictions for our tour, and visitors of all ages will be fascinated by such close viewing of the comings and goings of these creatures.
Departures: Summer - 10.15am and then every half hour until 6.45pm.
Winter (April - September) 3.15pm, 4pm and 4.45pm

Duration: 1 1/2hours
Price: Adult $40, Child $12 (School age), Family $95 (2 adults + 2 or more children from same family). 
We offer a money-back penguin sighting guarantee!

OTHER STUFF
Penguin Place has plenty of parking, toilets on-site, a gift shop and hot and cold drinks available.

Bookings are recommended as we take a maximum of 15 people on each tour through the hide, and these do get booked out, especially during the summer months.  Please ring for bookings or more information: 03 478 0286

THE YELLOW-EYED PENGUIN
Yellow-eyed Penguins gain their names from their yellow iris and the characteristic yellow head band. They only live in New Zealand and they are one of the rarest penguins in the world with a total population of about 4000-5000 individuals. About one-quarter of these live on the east coast of the South Island and Stewart Island. Most of them live on Campbell and Auckland Islands, about 600 km to the south.

Phone: 03 478 0286

Our Location

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