点评:The brochure and online marketing made this place look like a must-see so we paid the AUD550 (for 2) and jumped on the bus from Port Chalmers with great anticipation. After a long and windy bus ride out there, the place looked very promising - its set on a large and spectacular coastal headland. That was where the fun ended - with very little orientation and NO SAFETY BRIEFING our group of 40 then had to self organize groups of 4 adults into Argos that would comfortably accommodate two and then driven dangerously on rough tracks with minimal commentary and no opportunities to take photos until we stopped down closer to the water at a very pretty little cove. Again, little effort was made to explain what we were seeing (there were a few penguins asleep in their burrows that were woken up so we could see them) and a few seals laying on the rocks... no explanation about the yellow eyed penguins (MIA) which were the major reason for going on this tour. After the minimum amount of time in this nice area, we walked through another boxed penguin area and then swapped onto a minibus with no seatbelts and rushed back up to their run down shop and restaurant. Unbelievable (given what we had paid) that we were not even offered a bottle of water - such a disappointing contrast to other places we visited in NZ. As we drove back down the hill past the Albatross centre, we both wished that we had taken that option instead... This place is an accident waiting to happen and is not worth visiting given all the beautiful areas nearby where locals take pride in what they are offering.
翻译:宣传册和在线营销让这个地方看起来像是一个必看的地方,所以我们支付了 550 澳元(两人份)并满怀期待地从查尔默斯港登上了巴士。经过一段漫长而蜿蜒的巴士旅程后,这个地方看起来非常有希望 - 它坐落在一个壮观的大海岸岬角上。乐趣也到此为止 - 在几乎没有介绍的情况下,也没有安全简报,我们 40 人的团队必须自行组织 4 名成人的小组进入可舒适容纳两人的 Argos,然后在崎岖不平的道路上危险地行驶,几乎没有讲解,也没有机会拍照,直到我们在一个非常漂亮的小海湾附近停下,靠近水边。同样,几乎没有人解释我们所看到的(有几只企鹅在洞穴中睡觉,被叫醒所以我们才能看到它们)和几只海豹躺在岩石上......没有关于黄眼企鹅(MIA)的解释,而这正是我们参加这次旅行的主要原因。在这个美丽的地方待了一会儿后,我们穿过了另一个企鹅箱区,然后换乘一辆没有安全带的小型巴士,匆匆赶回他们破旧的商店和餐厅。难以置信(考虑到我们付的钱),他们竟然连一瓶水都没给我们——这与我们参观过的新西兰其他地方相比,真是令人失望。当我们开车下山经过信天翁中心时,我们都后悔自己当初没有选择那里……这个地方简直就是个意外,考虑到附近那些当地人引以为豪的美丽景点,这里根本不值得一去。