The Penguins at Boulders Beach
Penguins
There’s something very peculiar about standing on a sandy shoreline, basking in the South African summer sun while gazing out across the crystal blue waters of the Indian Ocean, only to encounter a group of penguins waddling past your beach towel on their way to having a dip. Well at Boulders Beach, a National Park, just outside Simon’s Town (en-route to Cape Point), nature has been playing the strangest tricks on sun worshipers for some time.
Boulders Beach is home to the ‘Jackass’ African penguin, which has been hanging out along the Southern African coast for… er… donkey’s years, in more recent times living shoulder to knee-cap with the local human population of Simon’s Town. Named “jackass” after their distinctive Eeyore impersonations, they occur in only 27 other sites, including Robben Island, and despite their large numbers at Boulder’s (some 3000), they are very much endangered. Continued
Article by: SA Travel News Editor
