Royal Albatross returning to land at the Royal Albatross Center.
Part of the Royal Albatross Center. Below Fort Taiaroa, built on the headland to counter the potential threat of a Russian invasion in the late 1880s and later used for training and defence during WWI and WWII. The only fully restored 1889 Armstrong Disappearing Gun in the world in its original position.
Yellow-eyed penguin seen on the Penguin Place Tour