Oamaru Vacations, Oamaru Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

From Lake Tekapo to ... Penguins in Oamaru! In Oamaru we went for a short walk with a great view over the beach and spotted a few small penguins far, far down - too far away to get any good photos. Then suddenly a penguin showed up just a few metres away - that's the one you see on the photos. Really adoreable, considered for a minute to bring it home with me, but I figured it was too big to hide all the way to Denmark.. Later that evening I got even more hooked on bringing a penguin or two w...

Oamaru was a really excellent stop-over. Our first impressions were that it was a fairly pleasant but non-descript place, but we hadn't visited the excellent historic quarter at that point! We primarily stopped here because of the Blue Penguin Colony that is right in the town.  The Blue Penguins (the smallest penguins weighing between 1 and 2 kg) were considered a pest by many people dwelling near the waterfront because they busily made their burrows under people's houses and w...

Beautiful country - I have to come back some day. MORE PHOTOS TO COME

We left Ashburton at about 9.45am after a leisurly breakfast sat in the sun.  We met up with the Pacific Ocean again in Timaru a little further south and had a little stop here.  Apparently Icebergs have been floating past the southern coast of New Zealand and had reached as far as here - we didn't see any though.  We continued south and arrived in Oamaru at lunchtime.  We found a campsite and then headed into town.  It is quite a distict town as a lot of buildings ar...