During three weeks of amazing locations, St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia still stands out as the most incredible to me. Penguins, rivers, glaciers, mountains...
A Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) gets ruffled by a high wind as it sits on its nest on New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December...
A female Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) seen on the beach at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia on December 23rd, 2024. When in the water, and for a period...
Complex patterns in the ice at Salpêtrière Bay, Antarctica as seen on December 31st, 2024.
We spied this cormorant, most likely a South Georgia Shag (Leucocarbo georgianus), fishing in Cooper Bay, South Georgia on Christmas Day last year. These...
Based on a very unscientific glance at Instagram engagement numbers, it seems that people prefer penguins and icebergs to rusty whaling stations so, in an attempt...
Rusting tanks and machinery in the historic whaling station at Grytviken, South Georgia, December 23rd, 2024.
Petrel is one of three decommissioned whalers beached at the historic whaling station in Grytviken, South Georgia. In the background you can see the British...
We’ll stay with the Grytviken whaling station today with another picture of the abandoned machinery found there. I expect this was some kind of boiler...
A Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) seen on an ice floe at Cape Tuxen, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
Buxton Glacier is one of three glaciers that meet and terminate at St. Andrews Bay in South Georgia. Maps indicate that the glacier front has receded by about...
Oceanwide Expeditions assistant expedition leader George Kennedy with one of the M/V Hondius’ zodiacs reflected in his sunglasses. Taken in King...
Apparently yesterday was Penguin Awareness Day and I missed an opportunity to post one of the many penguin pictures I have lined up. I’ll make good...
A detail of an intricately patterned and beautifully coloured iceberg seen at Petermann Island, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
The mountains of Tierra Del Fuego recede into the sunset light in this image taken in the Beagle Channel shortly after we departed Ushuaia at the start...
An abandoned whaler in the historic whaling station at Grytviken, South Georgia, with Oceanwide Expeditions’ M.V. Hondius at anchor in the bay behind,...
After a year on land as brown fuzzballs, King Penguins shed their fuzz and prepare to head out to sea for the first time. Here’s one disreputable-looking...
The King Penguin rookery at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia is the world’s largest. The last official count in 2021 estimated 150,000 birds but recent...
One of the many and varied icebergs floating in the bay at Cape Tuxen, Antarctica on the morning of December 31st, 2024.
Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) were everywhere on South Georgia where the current population is estimated at five million or about 95% of the world...
