点评:What a wonderful day! We took the peninsula tour with a stop at the Albatross Centre and the penguin reserve. Our guide Mark was great! We left from Dunedin and drove to several spots on the peninsula where we walked to a beach to see seal lions, we drove around a lake to see water birds, and we got great views.
Everyone else on our small group tour had signed up for the guided tour at the Albatross Centre (which they seemed to enjoy), but my husband and opted to just walk around the visitor center. There were some interesting displays, we wandered through the gift shop and picked up a drink at the cafe and then watched several albatross flying around from a seat outside. There were also two short walks you can do outside the centre with great views.
We then went to the penguin reserve and after an orientation we walked through the tunnels to several hides to try to see the yellow-eyed penguins. We had been warned that they hadn't been spotted in weeks, so our expectations were low (they're in the wild so you just have to know you may not see any). It was our lucky day, however, and we saw two penguins waddling through the grass!
While we could have driven ourselves out and around the peninsula, I was very happy to have a relaxing day and a break from driving, and to be able to actually look around vs. being so focused on a curvy road was very nice. Mark was a great guide, and we would highly recommend Monarch Wildlife Tours! (we actually booked through Elm Wildlife, they the two companies have merged).
翻译:多么美好的一天!我们参加了半岛之旅,并在信天翁中心和企鹅保护区停留。我们的导游马克很棒!我们从但尼丁出发,开车去了半岛上的几个地方,在那里我们步行到海滩看海豹狮,我们绕着湖边开车看水鸟,欣赏了美丽的景色。
我们小团体旅游的其他人都报名参加了信天翁中心的导游之旅(他们似乎很喜欢),但我和丈夫选择只是在游客中心散步。那里有一些有趣的展览,我们逛了逛礼品店,在咖啡馆喝了一杯,然后坐在外面看了几只信天翁飞来飞去。中心外还有两条短途步行道,风景优美。
然后我们去了企鹅保护区,经过介绍后,我们穿过隧道来到几个隐蔽处,试图看到黄眼企鹅。我们被告知已经有几周没有看到它们了,所以我们的期望值很低(它们在野外,所以你必须知道你可能看不到它们)。然而,这是我们的幸运日,我们看到两只企鹅在草丛中蹒跚而行!
虽然我们可以自己开车出去绕半岛一圈,但我很高兴能度过轻松的一天,不用开车了,能够真正环顾四周,而不是那么专注于弯曲的道路,这真是太好了。马克是一位很棒的导游,我们强烈推荐君主野生动物之旅!(我们实际上是通过 Elm Wildlife 预订的,这两家公司已经合并了)。