Taking the plunge at Stony Point

Writer: Elaine Davie.

It would have taken a hard-hearted curmudgeon not to experience a lifting of the heart as 17 African penguins took to the ocean at Stony Point in Betty’s Bay last Saturday. It was exciting; it brought a smile to the lips and spontaneous applause from the spectators to see them waddling out of their holding boxes, down the short sandy beach and into the water.

PHOTO: SANCCOB

Then, sticking close to one another, they seemed to be looking round at the wide vistas of sea and sky in delight. “Wow, just look at this,” they seemed to be saying, before ducking below the water as if to the manner born, “this is what I mean, guys.”

PHOTO: CapeNature

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