Friday, July 25, 2008

I guess winter has advantages...

Because penguins in July are awesome!
this was taken below a boardwalk which was absolutely freezing.  There is an island called Phillip Island that just gets bombarded from the antarctic winds and the penguins just love it there.  I went down there with a couple friends and stopped at a nature reserve for a while and got to experience the other Australian animals (koalas, wombats, echidnas, emus, dingos, and of course kangaroos)


There is a series of rock formations, and the seals love them so I got to see a few from a distance.  The rock formation below is called the blowhole and the seals are there all year around.

The wind here was about 30 mph and with wind chill the temperature was around 0 degrees Fahrenheit.  Tomorrow I'm headed down the Great Ocean Road which overlooks the south pacific ocean with cliffs for miles and has some really cool landmarks.   It's mostly sandstone formations that decay quickly over the decades so I'm really glad I'm going to get to see them.

Cheers,
James

2 comments:

Leah said...

Awesome photos, James! Keep up the blogging!

Benjamin Finck said...

Dude, are you hugging a kangaroo? That's fucking awesome.