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.All Trips / Chile / South America
Visiting the Otway Penguins, Chile
It’s hard not to like penguins. Flightless, of course, their comical waddling gait on land belies their great agility and speed in the water. A chance to see them up close and in the wild is always something I’ll jump at, so I was glad for the opportunity to visit this penguin colony at Otway. Otway “feels” inland but is connected to the sea and the Fitzroy Channel.
Situated off the road connecting Torres del Paine and Punta Arenas in Patagonian Chile, Seno Otway is home to a large but seasonal colony of penguins. During the peak season, from October through March, there are up to 150,00 Magellanic penguins that mate and reside in the area. They nest, lay eggs in October, and …
.All Trips / Massachusetts / North America / Northeastern USA
A Day at the New England Aquarium, Boston
I love visiting zoos and aquariums — at least most of them. I believe they offer an excellent chance for people to see and study our planet’s fellow inhabitants, and that they are one of the most important conservation tools available to us. People are much more likely to conserve animals and ecosystems they have an emotional tie to. As a life-long student of biology and nature, I always find something new and fun everytime I go.
Boston’s New England Aquarium, while far from the biggest or best, is a nice place to spend a day with a family. It is a popular tourist destination, hosting more than a million visitors each year. Besides the aquatic attractions within the Aquarium …
Tagged Aquarium, Boston, fish, New England, Penguins
.All Trips / Africa / South Africa
Cape Point: Peninsula, Penguins & Protea
There are many day trips you can take from Cape Town, one of the of the best being a drive down the Cape Point Peninsula to it’s tip. The day will provide you with beautiful scenery, wonderful beaches, small harbor towns, dramatic cliffs, a lighthouse, ostriches, and brilliantly colorful protea. Perhaps the greatest fun of the day is to visit the colony of African penguins that live on the Peninsula.
From Cape Town there’s a winding road of good quality that hugs the coast and takes you mostly through the wilderness preserve of Table Mountain Nature preserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Our first stop was at Hout Bay, a small town …
Tagged Cape Point, Cape Town, Penguins, protea, South Africa, wildlife
