formal dance party?....

Magpies + king/emperor penguins, (to me), always look as though they are all spruced up in tuxedos, ready for a formal dance party... https://t.co/12N6aw8V4z

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 14, 2022

Falkland Islands distraction...

I needed this beautiful Falkland Islands distraction today...
Just take 'the penguin slow boat' and all will be just fine... https://t.co/nFtgNtOVlF

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) September 30, 2021

if the little penguins can do it...

Just like Phillip Island's little penguins, we can get up and keep going in these uncertain times https://t.co/s5XNHzAEeW

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 20, 2021

lockdown parade of penguins...

First a whole street of hopscotch and now a beach of parading penguin sand sculptures...
This lockdown is certainly stirring the creative spirit... https://t.co/bgP6sIAmSY

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) May 30, 2021

penguin skills...

Little-known penguin skills...apart from being amazingly cute...
May the force be with them... https://t.co/oLUHeBSxLS

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 28, 2021

109 year old role model...

Fantastic role model and legacy...
Alfie works his magic from a retirement home in NSW...for the Phillip Island Penguin Foundation in Victoria...
(He also makes hats for premature babies)
Age is not a barrier but a challenge - to adapt and feel connected to life...
Awesome guy... https://t.co/mKEkjuw0iX

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 20, 2021

UPDATE: Sadly, Alfie passed away a few years ago - at the age of 110. https://t.co/ApLDdFtFdy

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 20, 2021

Poor Alfie is no longer with us

Alfred "Alfie" Date (8 November 1905 – 2 May 2016) was an Australian supercentenarian, who was the oldest living man in Australia and the second-oldest living person in Australia at the time of his death.

Death: 2 May 2016; Umina, Australia

— Col Philip Cyclist, Cycling Jerseys, MTB, Tri, MX (@ColPhilip1) February 20, 2021

penguins watch Melbourne lights...

I've posted this image before. Still love it. Still love the back story. “A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left,” Baumgaertner explained. https://t.co/X2VJjXglWF https://t.co/qiyuVdOfLq

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

First posted this on 21st April with Shu Ting's poem

Then on 7th June 

the happy feet...

Whenever I see these little characters walking, I definitely think of 'happy feet' + the movie of the same title... It's the rock and roll waddle of those on the way to their happy place...Love see them together like this... https://t.co/4ZsZGF7y91

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 3, 2020

penguins...

The back story on this image is amazing. We see here 2 widowed penguins. They are poised on a rock overlooking the Melbourne skyline... The white one is an elderly lady. These 2 meet regularly here...https://t.co/qZH8g3WMDB https://t.co/kYMpPMl2DQ

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) June 7, 2020

Apart from the amazing fact that this moment happened at all, is the more amazing fact that it is a regular event... I am even surprised that these 2 allowed a photographer to get close enough to capture them...

I first posted the image of the 2 penguins on 21st April...But I feel it is worth posting again...

a tree standing together with you...

I must be a kapok, the image of
A tree standing together with you;
Our roots closely intertwined beneath the earth,
Our leaves touching in the clouds.
With every whiff of wind
We greet each other
But no one can
Understand our words. - Shu Ting 'To The Oak' (extract) https://t.co/pFMJGb5FoT

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 21, 2020