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To kick start this entry, I doubt this applies to many, but your patience has paid off waiting for some photos, as I've gone a little crazy and added over 30 of the little blighers to my previous blog. If you thus fancy seeing even more mountains, or a car-destroying parrot, just click that 'previous entry' buttom above. I figured, as this will be the last set of photos I can upload until I next put some on CD, I thought I'd treat you lucky lucky people.

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

Simon Wadsworth
2006-09-04 17:28:55

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To kick start this entry, I doubt this applies to many, but your patience has paid off waiting for some photos, as I've gone a little crazy and added over 30 of the little blighers to my previous blog. If you thus fancy seeing even more mountains, or a car-destroying parrot, just click that 'previous entry' buttom above. I figured, as this will be the last set of photos I can upload until I next put some on CD, I thought I'd treat you lucky lucky people.

So where did I finish last time? Something about looking forward to saying hello to Penguins I think. From Dunedin I went on a long nature tour to the nearby Otago Peninsula, renowned for its amazing wildlife, besides a huge 20km natural harbour. While soaking up all the facts about these animals from our young guide, we watched a small sea lion colony - both Mums, Dads and baby pups having some fun smelling of musk and learning to swim etc, before going speechless at finally seeing penguins in the wild (see photos).

Yellow-eyed penguins are the rarest species of penguin with only 8000 left in the world, but they also have a remarkable ability to swim up to 40km out to sea for food, then by means yet to be understood, can navigate their way back to the same part of the same beach, whereby they then climb up to 3km inland, and go to sleep in burrows. We always seem to associate penguins with snow, but apparently only 2 species actually prefer building snowmen, the rest feeling happier in either temperate or even tropical climates. Very patient birds, we saw a couple standing in the same spot for over an hour seemingly doing nothing - I felt I should give them a rubik's cube or something to watch on TV. But the real show came when we visited the hide, and according to our guide, saw them at closer range than most do, as less than a metre from the hide window were two penguins, completely oblivious to us and our whirring cameras. It's hard to imagine they're birds - a ...