Continuing the animal theme---during our nature cruise yesterday on the Milford Sound, we were hoping to see more wild animals and we did! We saw little brown seals sunning themselves on the rock and two seals having a bit of a face off--for warm rock space--the bigger one won!
During our time in Christchurch we went to the Antarctic Center, a really great museum which also has a penguin exhibit. So, we had gotten quite an intro to penguins and were hoping to see some in the wild.
During an earlier cruise a few had been spotted but they are quite shy so the guide on the boat said that normally you get one glimpse at the top of their heads then they go under water. Well, lo and behold we got one of those glimpses really quick.
Wellll Jocelyn, Kris and I were not satisfied with that little glimpse and went into nature finder mode--searching the calm open waters for more penguins. Off in the distance there was something shiny. Throughout this trip we have all demonstrated our love of shiny things--easily distracted, sentences left unfinished, stepping off a walking path to investigate etc. Yesterday was no different.
We honed in on those shiny heads--not sure whether they were a dolphin or penguins and lo and behold they were penguins! The guide was so impressed with the ladies from Philly for finding them. We got great pictures of the penguins, one swimming on his back and one on his belly.
Yeah us!!
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