On the first day of our trip to Cape Town in February this year, we stopped at the penguin colony in Simon's Town. A huge change, and improvement, to the infrastructure and protection of the land-based colony since I studied at university in Cape Town. Unfortunately as with most wildlife around the world, the continued survival of these penguins is threatened, since they have to swim further and further to fish in competition with commercial fishing fleets. The picture below of the parent and chicks is amusing though - I am not sure how much protection from the sun, the parent was actually providing !