Boulders, home of the African Penguins!

We’ve done really well on penguins on this trip!  Yellow-eyed penguins here and here, and hundreds of Magellanic and Gentoo penguins here.  We hadn’t had enough though and continued our trip from Cape Town with a stop at Boulders to see a colony of African Penguins.  It was a good time of year to be there because the babies were not finished molting and still had big hunks of fuzz.  They were adorable.  We also loved seeing the penguins surf in on the waves and waddle up the beach.  This is a really good spot for viewing penguins because after you pay your entry fee you can walk along boardwalks that get you right up close to the penguins.  There are lots of great photo opportunities!

African Penguin napping under a bush

Surfing in to the beach

Fuzzy baby penguins

Very cute penguins

Peeking Penguins

My favorite penguin

Basically there are way too many cute photos for me to pick.  Click on any of the above if you want to see more!

After we had watched the penguins for a couple of hours we headed back to Cape Town for another night there.  We were pretty happy with our hostel there, A Sunflower Stop.