Boulder beach is on the way to the Cabo de Boa Esperanza, er.... Cape of Good Hope, well hey it was named by the Portuguese sailors right? Its about an hour out of Cape Town and a really nice stop with penguins for fun. You can even swim at the beach there but it is flipping cold and I would not recommend it for the faint hearted who have no clue what the Benguela current does. (It comes up past here from Antarctica) so yeah like I was saying not for the "Ooooo I am freezing" types. I saw a few people coming out of the water looking like they had purple lipstick on. Yeah, not for me uh uh!
Anyway, Boulder beach as I was saying before the linguists caught up with me, is a rookery of the jackass penguins now called the African Penguin since some jackass wanted to change the name. They bray loudly and sound like jackasses and that was why they were given the name in the first place. A few hundred of these hang out at Boulder beach and we took the side with less tourists and less penguins and yet had a good time watching them hop around the rocks. They are small birds and live on the beach here all year around. About 60cm or so high they seem to have a permanent smile on their faces and frankly, watching them, so did we.
The sign boards were really cute and so added them as well. Check out the blue of the sea. So beautiful. Explore Africa its great!
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