Departs daily from historic Dunedin Railway Station for the Taieri Gorge journey. Travel 77km to Middlemarch either one way or return. Travel 58km to Pukerangi and visit Macraes Gold mine or Track & Trail with train & bus to exciting Queenstown via the Maniototo Plains.
Passengers board the Monarch to see what cannot be seen from land, to greet the mighty Northern Royal Albatross as it sweeps in from the open Pacific Ocean and soars above the spectacular inaccessible cliffs of Taiaroa. These escarpments are alive with eight other species of birds nesting above families of Fur Seals. Close offshore, huge flocks of Sooty Shearwaters feed among other Shearwaters, Petrels and other species of Albatross.