This touching photograph was taken when playboy King Penguin, Happy Feet,who has been making a nuisance of himself in Darwin's nightclub precinct- instead of returning to the bosom of his family at the South Pole- was reunited with his son . After some R and R in New Zealand, Happy Feet , who became a world celebrity, slipped into his Speedo's and said he was heading home . Instead, the bright lights of Mitchell Street , Darwin, attracted him . His anxious young son, Flat Foot, hardly strong enough to open a tin of Norwegian sardines, made the epic swim from McMurdo Sound to Darwin after he heard that his missing father had hitched a ride to the NT on an iceberg. Flat Foot, standing on a lucky piece of the melting polar icecap he brought with him, is shown cuddling up to his wandering father at the Darwin Police HQ, where he went bail for his pater, charged with racial slurs against Irish backpackers during the World Cup in NZ. Alert readers will note that Happy Feet is still nursing his lump of solidified whale vomit, ambergris, worth a fortune in the French perfume industry.
