Now I realise that Antarctica technically isn’t wildlife. But it’s full of wildlife, albeit of a somewhat limited variety (we saw a total of 10 species of vertebrates, plus a couple of crustaceans and some algae in two months). And it only seems fair that I share some of that wildlife with you. I haven’t had time to properly edit the ~65GB of photos we took at Cape Bird this year, so here is a photo for every one of the 56 days we were in Antarctica. I hope you’ll forgive me the odd non-wildlife photo! Hovering over a photo will give you some inane caption, while you can click on one and enter slideshow mode for a better view. Enjoy!
More southern stories will follow soon….
Getting ready for penguin wrangling
Antarctica
Looking south from Scott Base
Out on the pressure ridges
Back home at Cape Bird
Random windowsill treasures
Porpoising penguin
March of the penguins
More random windowsill treasures
Backwards pointing spines prevent krill from escaping
Time for a swim
Sea ice
Scientific America, c1967
Shiiit, that was further than I thought!
A new pile of push ice
Every hut needs an ACME wringer
Santa catches a penguin
Skua chicken
Adelie penguin chicken
Have egg, will travel!
Sea ice
Beaufort Island & the Cape Bird icecap
New Year preparations
Happy 2014 from Cape Bird
Weddell checking out the water temperature
Reason 57 for not nesting next to the creek
Freckles
Umm…it got dark (or I forgot to take a picture!)
Surveying the new pebble extraction site
Iceberg on the horizon
Creature comforts
A banded chick who didn’t make it
Weddell Seal
And the sea ice comes rolling in
Surveying the flood damage
The Cape Bird Ice Cap is melting…
Photobombing penguin!
Nesting by the creek ain’t all it’s cracked up to be!
Milo
More flooding
A fishing boat comes to visit
Mocha
Leopard seal tossing a penguin
I got locked in a closet(?)
Nice ice
And here come the media…
Checking out the bach
Swimming in the stinky pond
A parade of Emperors
Banding is hard work
The Spirit of Enderby preparing to disgorge its passengers
Not the best weather for banding!
Our home away from home
You guys are up to something…
All packed but not ready to go
The obligatory sign photo (with open water in the background – weird)
