Why Did the Penguin Cross the Tracks?

To get to the other side of course, but really it's because he had to pick up another stone to build his nest. Poor little birds- its so cute how they waddle down the hill just to get a rock for their homes. The nests are mounds of stone which they sit on for days and in order to build that they have to trudge down hills picking up one stone which they carry up the entire hill so that they can repeat this process again.

On our first day at land, we were greeted by thousands of penguins who would just walk around, fighting and picking at eachother, and an occasional slapping here and there with their wings.
Sometimes the penguins would waddle up pretty close to you, but most of the time these flightless birds were too scared.

During the course of our trip to Antarctica, we encountered five species of penguins. The Adele penguins, whose eyes are like perfect circles one inside the other, and are the color of sapphire blue. The second ones were the chinstrap penguins, because they looked as if they had a black chinstrap. Then there were the Gentoo penguins, whose beaks were orange. The other two had black beaks. We also encountered two Macaronni penguins, whose name comes from the yellow feathers sticking out of their heads. And last, we saw one lonely lost emperor penguin sitting all alone on an iceberg.

At every stop we made, hoards of penguins surrounded the land, and these cute little creatures became the symbol of my entire Antarctic experience.