On the train ride, this view out the window was so beautiful, I thought it looked like a picture that had already been framed.
Maybe I was in a weird mood, but this I thought looked like a series of three paintings that were put next to each other (minus my friend's hair).
I had never seen so many birds as I did on this one island. Along with having tons of wild penguins living in their natural habitat in the bushes around the island, there were heaps of seagulls, pelicans, and turns.
Fish bones or something? Our friend Jacob is a Marine Science major and was giving us a lesson on everything we saw, which was pretty nice.
This was inside the conservatory, which is a mini-zoo type thing where 10 penguins live. They were put there because they had been hurt or lost from their mothers or something of that sort. A few had been born inside of there as well.
This one was about to molt. I thought it looked cute and fat :)
They had some really cool bones and shells on display too.
A pelican with a fish in its mouth, flying to its nest!
So many birds! I felt like I was in that movie "Birds," where they all team up and kill all the people. We were definitely strongly outnumbered here. We even saw a seagull attacking this baby seagull, for what seemed like no reason. It was really sad and I couldn't watch. It felt like something that you'd see on Animal Planet or Discovery Channel, and then change the channel...
This was a cave we found while exploring. We went to go underneath, but found that there were tons of dead birds in there...we decided they probably went there to die away from the group, or maybe other animals brought them there once they caught them. It was pretty though!
The cliff like rocks on the edge of the whole island were all fossilized and stuff and it was really neat.
This was pretty cool because there was vegetation growing on top of this rock-not really sure how it survived up there!
A beautiful day to explore!
A wild penguin in its natural habitat! The first time I'd ever seen that- particularly a penguin!
The other side of the island felt like a secluded little paradise, with even cooler fossilization.
My footprints!
I got on this photography kick while we were on this side of the island. It's hard not to take photos when you're somewhere so stunningly beautiful and different. I'd never been to a beach that was so preserved, and especially not one with fossils! We saw one where you could tell a tree used to be because you could see the rings in the fossilization. Pretty neat.
A fish bone.
Turns!
We actually arrived at the island pretty late in the day, around 4p.m. and it shut down at 5p.m. so we saw all this in just an hour. We got back on the ferry to head back and one of the women working in the conservatory had her pet kangaroo!
She said that she had a license to keep it and it slept in bed with her every night! I had never seen a baby kangaroo before. On our Denmark trip at the beginning of the semester we saw a baby in its mother's pouch, but you could barely see it and certainly not pet it or the mother would go crazy.
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It was a hassle to get to Penguin Island, and we only got to spend an hour there, but it was definitely worth it. It was stunningly beautiful and being able to see all these animals in their natural habitat, where they are supposed to be meant so much more than seeing them stand in a tank in a zoo/aquarium, hating their lives. A lot of Aussies haven't even made the trip to Penguin Island I was surprised to find out, but I'm really glad we went. :)
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