Goat Island Marine Discovery Centre, Leigh (2025)

The Goat Island Marine Discovery Centre provides information on the research activities carried out at the Leigh Marine Laboratory (Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland). The Centre showcases the surrounding marine environment in the form of information panels, interactive activities, video footage, a tidal touch tank, a sound tunnel, and our BIGeye microscope. If you are interested

in learning about New Zealand’s marine life this is the perfect experience for you! Admission Prices:

Infants (under 4 years) Free
Child (4 to 15 years) $5
Senior citizens/ Students (ID required) $7
Adults (16 years+) $9
Family pass (up to 2 adults, 2 children) $20

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16/06/2025

Kia ora e te whānau!

Winter ❄️ keeps on giving over the upcoming school holidays as SEA LIFE Kelly tarltons has an 8-day programme (across the two weeks) for students aged 13-16!!! 🐠🎉

Ocean youth Aotearoa supports young people to learn and influence positive action needed for our beautiful Moana 🌊🔬

On their 3rd day of the programme, you’ll be guided by us here at the discovery centre to learn about all about the effect of marine reserves and what it’s like to be a marine scientist! 🐬👩🏽‍🔬🧑🏼‍🔬🐙

If you know of some cool kids within this age bracket please get in touch with sea life’s ocean youth! You can screenshot the QR code (2nd pic) and follow the link which will connect you to the details of the 8-day programme.

Sea you guys soon!

01/05/2025

🤏 and a 🤜 for the first of the month! Nau mai, haere mai to Mei/May 🐠

🍂From today, the GIMDC has reverted to our winter/spring hours of open WEEKENDS only (to the public) 10am - 4pm.

🍂We are still able to host groups during the week so book in for a 1hr or full-day, fun, hands-on, marine education programme through our website: link in bio 🤓

🍂While the seasons and our hours might be changing, check our what’s happening to the temperature in the moana.. have you felt it too??

Let us know in the comments👇

03/02/2025

Aaaaand just like that we’ve already wrapped up the first month of 2025! We hope you’ve all had a lovely summer and start to the year so far. A couple of updates from your favourite moana nerds:

🐠 Our DC whanau has grown with Abby and Andy joining us as casual staff. They have been absolute (sea)stars, taking on busy days and group visits from the get go!

🐙 We hosted four different groups over Jan, with two visiting us from overseas (Iowa, US and Shanghai, China) and two epic holiday programmes with .

🐡 Our centre is looking spicy with some gorgeous new underwater prints (thanks to the uber talented photographer ) and info panels showcasing student research. There is more to come so watch this space and head in to sea for yourselves…

📢 REMINDER: Our bookings are ramping up for Feb/March so if you’re a tour, community, retiree, workplace, school/kura group- head over to the DC for an education programme 🤩. Our interactive sessions range from a standard one hour programme to longer 1.5hrs, half-day and full-day programmes across different topics!

Flick us a DM or get in touch via our website, we’d love to hear from you!

School might be back on but we’re still open 10am - 4pm 🕓 DAILY. Please be sure to check our socials, website or beach sign for any temporary closures for private events.

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We hope your Feb is deliciously salty,
Team DC 🌊

27/04/2024

The discovery centre will be CLOSED tomorrow (Sunday 28th April) for a private function.

Apologies for the inconvenience and we will SEA you next time 🐳🐟🐙🐬🦀🦞🐡🐠

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Leigh

Website

http://www.goatislandmarine.co.nz/

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