Magellanic penguins with fur on them are juveniles. Till they lose the fuzz they’ll’t swim so their mother and father, who mate for all times, need to feed them.
Who wants that stress? This one beneath is stepping into maturity.
Elevate the chain, open the gate and the penguins are at your mercy. Have you ever ever needed to keep away from penguins whereas driving? I’ve.
Are you able to think about the authorities within the US trusting the general public to go to a spot like this unsupervised and never trashing it?
The car parking zone was full of automobiles. There was not a speck of trash and everybody walked on the path and nobody harassed a penguin precisely as it’s best to behave. It was like our moms have been watching.
And the penguins are proper there, in every single place not fully fearless however inside attain of the people strolling by.
Extraordinary.
The fuzzy juveniles have been in every single place. In the event that they swim their fuzz absorbs water and so they drown to allow them to’t even feed themselves.
It was like a Disney film being proven the way in which by a butler penguin.
“Don’t go on the Seashore” and nobody did although we’ve seen photographs on Instagram of overlanders doing simply that. Assholes.
The seaside belongs to the birds:
Wanting north:
Time to go house do they waddle up the sand and go inland to security.
Rush hour. It was about six o’clock on Tuesday night.
Off house:
They paused as we hurried previous the break within the path and after we glided by they resumed their orderly trek:
Residence for the evening:
And a bonus sighting, I obtained to see an armadillo bustling by means of the bushes.
No penguins have been run over on this go to:
After which we too drove inland a mile to camp for the evening behind a hill to attempt to fail to flee the wind.
Fajitas and purple wind for dinner in Julia and Konstantin’s spacious Sprinter.
Sundown at 10 pm and darkness round eleven and daylight at 4:30 you possibly can go a good distance in daylight round right here. And with 65 diploma days it’s a nice place to be in summer season between rain squalls.
I may camp right here for days however we’ve glaciers to see subsequent.