Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Penguin Parade at Phillip Island
We go to see the penguin parade at Phillip island. It's absolutely amazing but so as not to disturb the penguins no one is allowed to take any photos. We sat on the beach at dusk & watched hundreds of tiny fairy penguins swim up to the shore & waddle up the beach in groups, rotating themselves so that they all get a chance to keep warm in the middle of the group. They're been gorging themselves on fish the whole day to regurgitate & feed back to their young in the burrows so they are looking pretty portly & some of them have trouble making the journey because they are so rotund. Seagulls bully the slower & weaker ones in the hope that they will regurgitate on the spot from fear & they'll be able to steal the fish. Happily none of them do. At times we're just inches away from the penguins with no barrier between us and them. It's an amazing site & our highlight of Australia so far.
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This sounds too cute - portly penguins! xx
what a wonderful sight the penquins must have made altogether
love mum xx
Hi Kerry and Paul - finally managed to get on to your amazing blog site ( couldn't seem to be able to get in before) so have got plenty of reading to catch up on - am printing the last 6 months off so I'll take them all home for Colette to read - probably have to take them home in a couple of trips as they weigh a bit!
Doing all this at work as we still don't have a computer at home!
So glad you're having such an amazing trip and you're both safe and well - you both look so happy and relaxed in the photos!
I've got plenty of reading to do now(should be working really!)
Take care of yourselves and carry on having this fantastic trip!
Lots of love
Peter and Colette
No posts recently - I'm missing them. I hope that you are not lost in the outback!
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