Pingüinos

               As the title might suggest, and as you all have been wondering, yes i saw Penguins :)
As my lovely sister pointed out, i'm giving you too much information, and despite how interesting it may be, its kinda hard to get through in one sitting. So....i'm changing it up.
           
          Callie and i booked a trip out to the penguin island. It was a full day trip including: pick up and drop off, canoeing in the Beagle Chanel, lunch, two hour trekking and seeing the penguin colony. The canoeing was fun aand mellow, i saw jelly fish, a bunch of seaweed, and a couple different kind of sea birds.

This is what really awesome canoe-ers wear...yeah. 

     After canoeing was lunch and then onto the zodiac to go out to the penguin colony. I was a little disappointed because we couldn't get off the boat and walk around with the penguins but it was ok because the boat got right up on shore and the penguins were pretty curious so a bunch of them came closer. And oh they are just too cute!! All awkward trying to waddle around. However, they are very graceful and quick in the water...just not on dry land. It was kind of frustrating, i really wanted to touch one but i could even get close!!!

So they don't really lay down...they just sort of flop onto their tummies.

In case you were wondering,...it was freezing that bad.

aren't they just the cutest things ever??? I was explicitly told not to steal one.

    I didn't take any pictures from the trekking on Gable Island but it was a really nice hike. We walked along the shore line for a little bit, then into the forests and on the hill side. They have this weird type of edible mushroom that grows on trees, it is neon orange, and they just grow on the side of the trees...the trees create a knot to try to get rid of the mushroom ans as the mushroom falls it releases spores that create a new mushroom and the cycle continues. So, many of the trees are covered in weird spongy, neon orange ball things. Actually kinda freaky looking.
    Also during the trekk we saw some beaver dams and two beavers....and i found a bunch of sea Urchins....which when i brought a shell back for Alex he tried to eat. Best look on someones face ever. Chomp. "what is this?!" yeah...not candy.
But i digress... And after all this we went saw the famous sideways tree. Cool story right?