Remember the penguin tour I mentioned that I went on in Bicheno, Tasmania? I didn't dwell on it because we weren't allowed to take cameras along.
The little penguins don't have eyelids and are genuinely harmed by camera flashes. Now, I know how to turn my flash off and so my first instinct was to demand to take my camera along anyway. But they said that too many people think they know and screw up, causing permanent damage to wee penguin eyeballs. But they'd send us jpegs if we requested them by email.
I requested the jpegs as soon as I got off the bus.
And heard nothing back.
A few days later, I sent a second email. And again heard nothing.
I was pretty sure this wasn't a diabolical plot—though their website is all in annoying Flash which leads me to believe that maybe it IS a conspiracy—and that my emails were hanging out in some spam filter. So I telephoned.
And got these photos ten minutes later.
Here they are, the little blue(ish) fairy penguins of Bicheno.
The little penguins don't have eyelids and are genuinely harmed by camera flashes. Now, I know how to turn my flash off and so my first instinct was to demand to take my camera along anyway. But they said that too many people think they know and screw up, causing permanent damage to wee penguin eyeballs. But they'd send us jpegs if we requested them by email.
I requested the jpegs as soon as I got off the bus.
And heard nothing back.
A few days later, I sent a second email. And again heard nothing.
I was pretty sure this wasn't a diabolical plot—though their website is all in annoying Flash which leads me to believe that maybe it IS a conspiracy—and that my emails were hanging out in some spam filter. So I telephoned.
And got these photos ten minutes later.
Here they are, the little blue(ish) fairy penguins of Bicheno.
Aww, they are cute! I'm glad someone is protecting their little eyes.
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