Brillant viewing of one of the worlds rarest Penguins can be seen on the Otago Peninsula at Penguin Place, a Penguin conservation reserve.

The reserve offers the penguins nesting boxes for shelter, shade and privacy that they require for successful breeding.

From covered trenches and observation huts, viewing is maximised to the full allowing visitors to get within inches of this facinating bird.

Yellow-eyed Penguins were called Hoiho ('noise-shouter') by the Maori. They only live in New Zealand and are one of the rarest penguins in the world with a total population of about 4-5000. 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 600km to the South of New Zealand.