Saturday, January 15, 2011

A wee story from Callum


Yesterday we continued our journey along the Antarctic Peninsula. On the way to an island along the Peninsula we saw some killer whales feeding on a minkewhale or a couple of leopard seals. On our ship we have two whale researchers called Bob and John and their favorite whales are killer whales so, after everyone got some pictures they rushed out on a zodiac and shot three arrows off a crossbow onto a whales dorsal fin (which didn’t hurt the whale.) The three arrows got two DNA samples and a satellite tag so they could see where the male went. They said that they would probably go up the coast of South America almost to Brazil. 
After we saw the whales we stopped to see a penguin colony of adelie penguins. I got to help counting the adelie chicks. There were 369 chicks when I counted them. The penguins swam, walked funny and they looked at you like you were from mars or even Pluto.

Adelie penguins

Callum getting a Zodiac driver lesson from Sven Lindblad of Lindblad Expeditions


Callum counting penguin nests and chicks for the Oceanitis survey
 

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