The Otago Peninsula is a long” finger”, extending 20 kilometres east-ish from the second largest city on New Zealand’s South Island.
Dunedin is modest in population – a “permanent” home to little more than 130,000 people, and now #7 in NZ.
Once, however, it was the nation’s premier city.
Dunedin still feels surprisingly “grand” and “important”; culturally, this “university city” is generally considered one of NZ’s “big four”.
The Otago Peninsula’s sheltered side is the southern wall of the large, drowned valley that is Otago Harbour.
Otago Peninsula’s ocean-facing side is very much wilder.
My photo looks down from the ocean side of the Peninsula’s extremity, Taiaroa Head, which is home to the world’s only “mainland” breeding colony of Northern Royal Albatross.
Albatross were indeed present – variously, aloft and on the grassy top of Taiaroa Head.
Mostly, when we were lucky enough to see the signature species in flight, it was gliding & wheeling above us.
Occasionally, however, this singular location enables one to look down on a flying albatross.
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