Who doesn’t love a penguin? Cute, little, waddling, smartly dressed – being surrounded by around 20,000 of them would be a total delight, right? Not entirely. Penguins, frankly, stink. Well, their rookeries do anyway, the snow stained pink with the by-product of a diet rich in krill.
Penguins en masse also make the most almighty racket, hooting and squawking non-stop as they greet mates, shout at marauding skuas or join in the constant chorus just for the fun of it. It’s deafening.
Get them on their own, though, and they’re totally charming. One of the best bits, and there were so many, about my Silversea Expedition cruise to Antarctica was that there was plenty of time for quietly connecting with this magical, unique environment and its inhabitants. Sitting on a…
