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With a wide range of nightclubs, restaurants, bars, live music and theatre, our country's nightlife offers something for most age groups (the legal drinking age is 18). Live bands are popular with younger pub-goers and jazz venues attract a more mature audience. Nightclubs vary in music genres, and the diversity of quality live theatre ensures all interests are catered for. If you enjoy a punt or two, then try your luck at a casino, where you'll find a range of gaming tables and machines (20 is the minimum age for entry). If you're a smoker, then please note that there is a smoking ban inside all restaurants, casinos, pubs, bars and nightclubs, although provision is made outside of these establishments for smokers.

Oamaru is the district's main centre and is renowned for its attractive townscape and gardens,
intact Victorian precinct and harbour, neoclassical stone buildings, and the most accessible daily
contact with penguins anywhere in the country. Oamaru has the largest collection of protected
heritage buildings in New Zealand. They were designed by the finest architects of their time and
crafted from the local limestone now known worldwide as Oamaru Stone. The harbour, reputed to be the
only intact Victorian harbour in New Zealand, is home not only to an old curved wooden wharf and an
assortment of traditional craftspeople, but hundreds of blue penguins that waddle ashore every night
just after dark. The Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony, a natural nesting area for the world's smallest
penguin species, has been enhanced by a dedicated team of volunteers and is now an international
drawcard. Grandstand seating enables visitors to get a close look at these engaging birds every
night of the year. A 30-minute walk away is another penguin colony at Bushy Beach. This is the
northern-most place where the rare yellow-eyed penguin is known to nest and breed successfully.
Visitors can watch them come ashore each evening.