About 3,000 African penguins breed year-round among the granite boulders; boardwalks keep them safe.
22 beaches
Seal and penguin beaches
Beaches where seals, sea lions or penguins haul out or breed in numbers, and where that is the reason to go.
Yellow-eyed penguins nest in the dunes and New Zealand sea lions haul out on this Otago beach.
New Zealand sea lions regularly haul out on the sand of this Otago Peninsula beach.
New Zealand sea lions haul out on this remote Otago Peninsula beach, reached on foot.
Little penguins come ashore here at dusk; a hide gives nightly guided views of the Oamaru colony.
Little penguins come ashore at dusk roughly September to March at this roadside Tasmanian colony.
Little penguins cross the sand at dusk year-round; the Penguin Parade boardwalk overlooks them.
Fur seals and little penguins gather below Taiaroa Head, near the royal albatross colony.
Named for little penguins that come ashore near Otago Peninsula's Taiaroa Head at dusk.
Pacific harbor seals pup here December to May; the beach is viewed from a bluff, not entered.
Galapagos sea lions doze on this town beach in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno year-round.
Its name means sea lion colony; Galapagos sea lions rest on the sand right behind the surf.
Little penguins and shearwaters nest in the dunes of Bruny Island's Neck; a boardwalk protects them.
Named for the southern elephant seals that haul out on this remote West Falkland shore.
Southern elephant seals haul out and moult here by the thousand, November to January.
On the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands, named for penguin colonies along this shore.
Its name means penguin beach; rockhopper penguins come ashore here on Amsterdam Island.
Named for the elephant seals that haul out on this Kerguelen Islands shore.
Named for the fur seals that haul out on Amsterdam Island, in the far southern Indian Ocean.
King penguins breed year-round here in one of the Falklands' largest colonies, about 1,000 pairs.
Galapagos sea lions haul out on this white-sand beach alongside frigatebirds and pelicans.
Sea lions and seabird colonies crowd Darwin Bay's beach on remote Genovesa Island year-round.