February 22, 2005
Penguins!
On Saturday some friends and I were planning to go shark-cage diving, but plans fell through when we got a call at 9:00 that there was too much "mist on the water." So instead of being intimidated by ravenous sharks, we decided to visit some feathery penguin friends in Simon's Town (about an hour train ride from Cape Town). They were so cute! They're only a little longer than a foot and they just waddle around all day. They can be mean, too, though. I started feeding one of them some crackers I'd brought and it bit my hand! It hurt! We got to swim with them in ice-cold Antarctic water. They would swim in schools and "bob" up and down like dolphins. These penguins squawk like a donkey's "he-haw." We saw tons of penguin eggs around, so pretty soon we'll go back to see babies. We've rescheduled the shark-cage dive for this weekend....
Hey Cate,
Great to see a picture of you, finally! I hope you're having a great day. That beach looks fantastic. We'll have to go there when I come to visit! Talk to you later today.
Posted by: Brannon at February 22, 2005 12:33 PMWow-eee!! That is too cool, Cate! so tell me, you are going to mail me a penguin, right?! or at least a penguin egg. I never really thought of penguins having eggs. I guess that would make sense, being that they're birds and all. What do the eggs look like, i wonder? Well, I'm glad you are adventurous enough to approach wild penguins. If penguins are that life-threatening I wonder how the sharks will be.
Rebekah
P.S. I hope your penguin bite doesn't prevent you from emailing me. (-:
did you know that penguins are my favorite animal...used to have a "Pengie" that i carried around instead of a "security blanket". pretty awesome that you get to see them in the wild (sort of)! praying for ya!
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