The St. Kilda beach is a 30 minute walk or 15 minute tram ride away from our apartment. We've gone down a few times to walk, ride bikes, or watch wildlife. After sunset, fairy penguins come back from feeding to shelter in the rocks of the breakwater. The night we went to see them (a Tuesday) there were a lot of people and only 3 penguins. There are numerous volunteers keeping people from getting too close to the penguins and from using flash photography. They illuminate the penguins using torches covered with red translucent tape. I still felt bad for the penguins though making their way through a crowd of people they presumably couldn't see. On the other hand, if you can't interest people in the wildlife would they care about protecting it? The much more numerous yet still protected water rats (now called rakali to improve their public image) were pretty much ignored.
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2 comments:
Off leash dog park at low tide. That leaves some unpleasant suggestions. Perhaps the park is named Poop Deck.
I'm not sure it's much worse than seagull guano
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