Showing posts with label penguin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label penguin. Show all posts

Friday, 24 June 2011

'Loneliest Penguin in the World'

 Poor penguin- Iris cried when she got home because the spotty penguin's had gone.

Taking a wrong turn: 
The Emperor penguin, nicknamed Happy Feet, got lost while swimming and ended up 4,000 miles away from its Antarctic home and ended up in New Zealand, this ten-month-old penguin has been taken to hospital for eating sand that it confused with snow. His new home is now at Wellington Zoo. 

Saturday, 11 June 2011

London Aquarium


I love the above photo, this Manta Ray really looks like a giant smile! It reminds me of scuba diving in the Simalan Islands just off Phuket, Thailand. We had a few amazing experiences swimming with these giant manta rays. They are so graceful, on our last dive of a five day boat trip one came up to our dive group and my uncle- the dive instructor broke forward to let the playful ray come and play and investigate. Then as we semi circled around them the Manta and my uncle looked like they were up on stage performing the most amazing ballet I have ever seen. My uncle took lead and the manta would follow diving up down and around him. A long time ago - pre kids. We were lucky to have seen such beauty under the water. Obviously we saw lots of sharks, mostly black and white-tips, although we have been on quite a few trips I never got to dive with the ultimate - The Whale Shark. (Mum and uncle have many times- and yes I'm very jealous!!)










I took this thinking how cute they are sunbathing. Now looking at it I think they are mating!