At a typical beach, you might spend some time chewing seagulls away from your bag of

potato chips, but Boulder's beach near Cape Town, South Africa is not a typical beach.

Because there it is a different kind of bird that will pay your beach towel a visit.

Birds that can't fly sound like donkeys and look like they're wearing teeny little tuxedos.

These beach birds are penguins.

You just have to sit somewhere quietly and the birds will come.

If you just sit quietly, they will literally come and start nibbling on your towel.

I'm Dylan Thurris and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible and wondrous places.

And today we're taking you to Simon's Town, South Africa.

We're sunbaters and tourists mingle with penguins.

That's after this.

If you find yourself driving around Simon's Town, South Africa,

you want to keep an eye out for animals crossing the road.

Basically you drop down towards a beach that you park and probably by the time you've

gotten out of your car, you've probably already seen a penguin kind of walk across the street.

This is Katta Ludinia and she works with the Seabird Rehabilitation Center nearby.

That's called Sam Cobb and they have a team of Seabird Rangers whose job is among many other things

to rescue penguins from inconvenient spots they find themselves in.

They get cold every five minutes, five people saying,

sorry, there's a brood underneath my car, can you please get it away?

Simon's Town is on the western side of South Africa's Cape Peninsula.

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