A few weeks ago we drove up the peninsula a little ways (about 15 minutes or so) to this beach called Boulder beach. We heard that if you get there right around dusk you can see yellow eyed penguins come in from fishing for the day...they make their nests right off the beach. So we decided to go for it and see if we could find them. It was a bit of a hike from where the car park was but we ended up finding what seemed like a good spot to watch. We were told there may be quite a few sea lions too in the area so to be careful. Sure enough there were two sea lions on the beach, one was snow white and the other was grey. We all hunkered down in some brush off the beach and just waited with our cameras ready. Sure enough right around dusk we saw this little black head pop up out of the surf, he would duck down and surf the waves in. It took him about 10 minutes to fully come out of the water. And when he did, he popped his head up and wiggled up on his feet and gave himself a big shake. Then he hobbled up towards his nest by the rocks. It was the most amazing thing to watch. I still cant believe we were able to be so close to a yellow eyed penguin and sea lions in nature like that. No one else was around either. We felt like real explorers. It was great!
We had to hunker down in the brush, so that the penguins couldn't see us!
A yellow-eyed penguin making his way up to his nest, after a long day of fishing. He was about 2 feet tall, and full of spunk.....kind of like Natalie.
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