ACTIVITY PASSPORT Graduate Research School Te Kura Rangahau Tāura Welcome to your graduate research journey at the University of Otago. Here at the Graduate Research School, we know it’s really important to get out of your office or lab and discover all that Dunedin and the wider Otago region has to offer, so we’ve designed this passport full of suggestions of places to go and things to see. To make it easier to plan Food and beverage your adventure, there is a suggested travel distance from Swim the Clocktower Building. At each activity, there are Bike often multiple things to do. Check the icons on each activity to give you an idea. Nature Walk/run Culture/heritage Sport How many can you cross off? Watch a rugby game at Forsyth Barr Stadium 1 Have an ice cream from the Rob Roy Dairy, 500 George Street 2 Take a tour of historic Olveston 3 Check out Dunedin’s street art on a walking tour 4 Taste the “Pride of the South” on a Speight’s Brewery tour 5 Enjoy some culture at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 6 Then head next door to Nova café for an injectable doughnut 7 Visit Toitū Otago Settlers Museum 8 Ride the hydroslide at Moana Pool 9 Take a walk around Ross Creek Reservoir 10 Check out the glow-worms in Leith Valley 11 Walk along St Clair Beach to St Kilda 12 Take a dip at the St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool 13 Visit Tunnel Beach 14 Play disc golf at Chingford Park in North East Valley 15 Walk or run up the world’s second steepest street – Baldwin Street 16 Enjoy the view from Signal Hill Lookout 17 Walk the Pineapple Track on Flagstaff 18 Volunteer to make paper lanterns for the winter solstice 19 Go on an out-of-town adventure with Unipol 20 Check out everything the Otago Peninsula has to offer 21 Drive to Pilots Beach to watch the little blue penguins come ashore at twilight 22 Enjoy afternoon tea and a wander around Larnach Castle and grounds 23 Visit gorgeous Glenfalloch Garden 24 Go cockling at Papanui Inlet 25 Explore the gun emplacements 26 See the seals at Pilots Beach 27 Take a Monarch Wildlife Cruise on Otago Harbour 28 Ask at the Dunedin i-SITE Visitor Centre about going to see hoiho, the rare yellow-eyed penguins 29 Visit the Orokonui Ecosanctuary 30 Visit Moeraki and the famous boulders 31 Watch a rugby game at Forsyth Barr Stadium forsythbarrstadium.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 1km 1 Have an ice cream from the Rob Roy Dairy, 500 George Street robroydairy.com | Distance from Clocktower: 700m 2 Take a tour of historic Olveston olveston.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 1.3km 3 Check out Dunedin’s street art on a walking tour dunedinstreetart.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 2–4km 4 Taste the “Pride of the South” on a Speight’s Brewery tour speights.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 2.2km 5 Enjoy some culture at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery dunedin.art.museum | Distance from Clocktower: 1.7km 6 Then head next door to Nova café for an injectable doughnut novadunedin.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 1.7km 7 Visit Toitū Otago Settlers Museum toituosm.com | Distance from Clocktower: 1.7km 8 Ride the hydroslide at Moana Pool Distance from Clocktower: 1.7km 9 Take a walk around Ross Creek Reservoir Distance from Clocktower: 3.1km 10 Check out the glow-worms in Leith Valley Distance from Clocktower: 6.7km 11 Walk along St Clair Beach to St Kilda Distance from Clocktower: 8km 12 Take a dip at the St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool Distance from Clocktower: 8.4km 13 Visit Tunnel Beach dunedinattractions.nz/tunnel-beach | Distance from Clocktower: 10.6km 14 Play disc golf at Chingford Park in North East Valley discgolfdunedin.org.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 4.2km 15 Walk or run up the world’s second steepest street – Baldwin Street Distance from Clocktower: 3.6km 16 Enjoy the view from Signal Hill Lookout Distance from Clocktower: 4.8km 17 Walk the Pineapple Track on Flagstaff dunedinattractions.nz/pineapple-track | Distance from Clocktower: 8.2km 18 Volunteer to make paper lanterns for the winter solstice midwintercarnival.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 1.7km 19 Go on an out-of-town adventure with Unipol otago.ac.nz/recreation/trips | Distance from Clocktower: 900m 20 Check out everything the Otago Peninsula has to offer otago-peninsula.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 11–35km 21 Drive to Pilots Beach to watch the little blue penguins come ashore at twilight Distance from Clocktower: 32.6km 22 Enjoy afternoon tea and a wander around Larnach Castle and grounds larnachcastle.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 15.8km 23 Visit gorgeous Glenfalloch Garden glenfalloch.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 11.6km 24 Go cockling at Papanui Inlet Distance from Clocktower: 27km 25 Explore the gun emplacements Distance from Clocktower: 31.5km 26 See the seals at Pilots Beach Distance from Clocktower: 32.6km 27 Take a Monarch Wildlife Cruise on Otago Harbour wildlife.co.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 2.9km 28 Ask at the Dunedin i-SITE Visitor Centre about going to see hoiho, the rare yellow-eyed penguins dunedin.govt.nz/isite | Distance from Clocktower: 1.6km 29 Take a day trip and head north of Dunedin ... Visit the Orokonui Ecosanctuary orokonui.nz | Distance from Clocktower: 19km 30 Visit Moeraki and the famous boulders moerakiboulders.com | Distance from Clocktower: 76km 31 31 22 30 27 26 OTAGO HARBOUR 21 11 18 15 10 25 3 16 9 4 2 17 23 6 29 20 1 7 28 24 19 PENINSULA 5 8 12 13 14 Map of Dunedin Activity approximate locations marked otago.ac.nz/graduate-research.