Into our second week of
torrential rain, with over 100 % humidity, the streets had turned to rivers and cicadas were
dropping from the trees into my backyard like dead flies.
But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of
torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold
rain during the day and then at night time the temperature
drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.