A collection of large icebergs seen in the Lemaire Channel off the Antarctic Peninsula’s west coast on December 31st, 2024. This was undoubtedly...
A section of the glacier at Point Wild on Elephant Island at the north eastern end of the South Shetlands chain in Antarctica. 22 members of the crew of Sir Ernest...
An interestingly-textured iceberg seen in Salpetriere Bay off Pleneau Island on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula on December 31st, 2024.
Iceberg A-76B was the second largest of three main fragments of the A-76 iceberg which broke from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in May 2021....
A Southern Rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) seen on New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024.
An Imperial Cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps) preening itself in a rookery on New Island in the Falkland Islands, December 19th, 2024.
A Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as an Antarctic Skua, seen bathing at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024. Fans of the movie...
A South Georgia Pintail (Anas georgica georgica) seen among the rocks on the shoreline at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024.
Our last day at the Antarctic Peninsula, January 1st, 2025, was drizzly and damp. We spent it at the Orne Islands which are home to some large penguin...
King Penguins at St. Andrew’s Bay, South Georgia, home to the island’s (and likely the world’s) largest colony containing somewhere around...
While we’ve been away (attending my son’s graduation in Atlanta), the M.V. Hondius story has played out to a point where, assuming things went...
M.V. Hondius at anchor off Petermann Island, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024 with a colony of Gentoo and Adelie penguins in the foreground. Hondius is currently...
With M.V. Hondius in the news, I’ve been wandering through my photos from our trip on the ship back in December 2024. Here’s a photo from what...
I was heartbroken yesterday afternoon to read about the hantavirus cases on M.V Hondius as it sailed from Ushuaia to Cape Verde while relocating from Antarctica...
An ice spire created by a rotated iceberg seen at Cape Tuxen, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
A detail of a huge tabular iceberg seen near Cooper Bay, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024. I love the contrast between the smooth, ocean-washed sections...
Time for another change and some more icebergs. Here’s a large, tabular berg grounded just off the dramatic coast of Cooper Bay, South Georgia seen...
A couple of juvenile elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) playing in the water at the site of Shackleton’s Peggotty Camp in King Haakon Bay, South Georgia...
A glistening female Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) shortly after she emerged from the water in Fortuna Bay, South Georgia on December 23rd,...
A couple of boisterous juvenile Antarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) seen playing at the water’s edge in Godthul, South Georgia on December...
