Friday the eleventh day of the eleventh month in two thousand and eleven was a memorable day for a small group of people visiting Dunedin. We were delighted to host members of both Lance and Agnes Richdale’s family on an Otago Peninsula tour as a precursor to the launch of the biography about Lance’s work “Seabird Genius” written by Neville Peat. The extended family of 15 nieces, nephews and cousins were shown some of the Trust’s work on a private reserve, the site where Lance undertook his first penguin studies at Cape Saunders, and then given a tour of the Albatross Centre at Taiaroa Head by the Otago Peninsula Trust who also provided a scrumptious lunch.

The day concluded with the book being launched by Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull, hosted by the publishers Otago University Press.

You can order your own copy of this fantastic book by downloading this form and sending it to the Otago University Press