Friday, 2 November 2007

Pretty Penguins

There is a penguin colony on boulders beach in Cape Town. You used to be able to just walk up to the penguins and hang out with them, but some smart @$* decided that they could make money off the penguins and so they've cornered them off and now you have to pay too walk down to the beach and see them. I was really annoyed, cause the whole time I had been telling Mack's mom about how she could walk right up to the penguins, but lo and behold she couldn't. Anyway, knowing that they are wild animals and that they most probably wouldn't stay in their pay per view area (which was ocean on one side) I went over to the next beach and found penguins that you could still walk up to and get your picture taken with, without paying - yay me. (oh and Jeremy had also told me to do this).





Well this species of Penguins was originally named the Jackass penguin because of the donkeyish braying sound it makes, but they have found other penguins that make the same sound now, and have since renamed these poor little tykes - the African penguin.


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