This is the view from Murrays Bay Harbour on the island towards Table Mountain. Each box is used to transport four penguins. Dawn, Sunday 25 June 2000 and volunteers fold and tape up the boxes ready for use. A group of oiled penguins on the shoreline.
Every penguin coming out of the sea is oiled, and needs to be captured.
A badly oiled African Penguin. The oil is dripping off the plumage. Rounding up a group of oiled penguins on Robben Island. Youngsters from the Chrysalis Project were of enormous help in carrying boxes onto a truck, for transport to Murrays Bay harbour on Robben Island, in the background. Mike Meyer, of Marine and Coastal Management, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, is in charge of the operation on Robben Island.