Motuara Island Bird Sanctuary & Dolphin Cruise

Board your Dolphin Watch Ecotours vessel to commence a half day Motuara Island Bird Sanctuary & Dolphin Cruise tour. Outstanding commentary and fantastic viewing areas allow passengers to enjoy playful Hector's, Bottlenose or Dusky dolphins, fur seals and numerous seabirds before landing on Motuara Island for a 1-hour nature lover's walk to remember. Explore the island alone or with a knowledgeable guide who will point out and describe the resident blue penguins, rare saddlebacks, melodic bellbirds, cheeky robins, native pigeons and yellow-crowned parakeets (Kakariki). The birds on this predator-free island are fearless, plentiful and very vocal, and the view from the Cook Strait lookout is absolutely spectacular. After returning to the boat, sit back and relax with a hot drink and cookie before returning to Picton via a working salmon fish farm to see fur seals lazing about in the warm Marlborough sun.