Monday, January 10, 2011

And then there are penguins!

Baby penguin running after its parent for food




Elephant seals taking over the colony

Gentoo penguin. Very pretty and cute

Three Gentoos finding their way back to feed their babes

Callum in his element!!!!

And there are the little dudes again

On the Zodiac with glacier in background

Beautiful ice drift

The glacier edge

The little black spot is a zodiac. Gives a sense of scale

The sail route so far

Everywhere you look it's pretty

Little painted petrel following the boat

Smith Island. This was our first sign of land this morning after 36 hours of sailing


Reached Livingstone island by lunch time today. Calm seas and sunny skies.
And hundreds of penguins! I knew this trip was going to be great, but I was
not prepared for the sheer wonder of this remote area of the world. It is beyond
belief to be sailing around here.
Some quick photos here before my computer's battery runs out.

Callum: Once we arrived in Antarctica we saw an island with hot springs (well, not really
hot). We saw lots of penguins!!!! Yay!!! The types of penguins we saw were Chinstrap,
Gentoo and Macaroni.

1 comment:

  1. hi! Callum, Happy birthday! PENGUINS!!!!! I did not know that there was a pengoo called macaroni. :)
    from, Jack

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