Inside Tracks: Penguin Feeding Experience
Have you ever wanted to step into a keeper's pair of boots and go inside our African penguin habitat? Now you can!
Prepare our African penguins' afternoon diet while learning the ins and outs of feeding, care, and overall management. Then, the keeper will pass the fish and you'll get the chance to help feed our African penguins.
Encounter Info
Cost: $150 per person + general admission for each GSC non-member
Availability: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; 3:00 - 4:00pm (September - February)
Additional holiday encounters may be available. Click the "book now" button for dates.
Please note: ticket sales close 48 hours prior to booking date.
Capacity: 1 participant
Minimum age: 16 years old
Age restrictions: All participants must be 16 or older and have the program liability waiver. Participants under 18 must have the program liability waiver signed by a parent/legal guardian.
Health and Safety: All participants are required to wear gloves for the duration of the program.
Guidelines
- Knee-high rubber boots will be provided to participants to maintain our birds' healthy environment.
- Long pants are strongly suggested. (Our birds sometimes like to explore with their beaks!)
- All encounters are subject to change due to animal medical procedures or other unforeseen circumstances.
- Photography is allowed and encouraged, but no tripods or selfie sticks, please.
FAQs
We'll start in food prep to prepare the afternoon diet for our whole colony and learn more about our African penguins' routine here at the GSC. Then we'll step behind the scenes into our African penguin habitat, Penguin Point. Here you'll learn more about African penguins with one of our very knowledgeable keepers while you record the penguins' diet and then feed our penguins.