Retelling Penguin Walkers.

Hi my name is Emmy and this is a story that I am going to retell for you. The story is called Penguin Walkers.

I was standing on cliff top of the Antarctic. Behind me was a adelie penguin colony was getting ready for the summer. I could also see something that was moving out there some tiny spots on the sea ice. I knew that they have came from the open sea, and the open sea was very far away. I couldn't see it even from the cliff top. It’s quite possible that these penguins had travelled fifty or even a hundred kilometres- a long way for a bird. What makes it amazing is that penguins are not suited for land. They send most of their lives in sea. Penguins swim underwater at twenty-five meters of hour or more - about ten times the speed their go on land.  But penguins can be very determined. One adelie penguin is known walked at least 300 kilometres inland and 1400 meters above sea level. That's the distance from  Wellington to Taupo, or from Christchurch to Dunedin. For a small bird that doesn't walk too well, it’s a very long way to walk. THE END!