Beach
Boulders Beach
Granite-boulder cove sheltering a colony that grew from two nesting pairs into thousands of penguins.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Boulders Beach in Cape Town starts in 1982, when just one or two breeding pairs of penguins waddled ashore onto these granite boulders, refugees from a colony collapsing elsewhere along the coast. It traces the decades of counts that followed and a trawling ban that flooded False Bay with sardines and anchovies, along with how the boulders' rounded, wind-blocked shape shelters nests from hunting gulls. Listen for the braying call that gave these birds their local nickname, jackass penguins.
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