Staying in St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia today, here’s one of the dramatic views of the South Georgia mountains as seen from the path we took just...
This is another view of the moulting King Penguins at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia as seen during our visit on December 24th last year. They lined...
I’m delving back into the archive of photos from last December’s trip to Antarctica today. Here, a group of moulting King Penguins (Aptenodytes...
Continuing the theme of boats, we move to the bottom end of the size scale today with this image of an expedition zodiac cruising in front of the face...
An apparently-contented juvenile Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) lying on the beach at Peggotty Camp, King Haakon Bay, South Georgia on December...
A group of Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) on an ice floe floating offshore from Elephant Island, Antarctica on December 29th, 2024.
Staying with penguins, here’s another image from my favourite location of our December expedition. This was taken at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia,...
A lone King Penguin on the beach at Peggotty Cove in King Haakon Bay, South Georgia on December 26th, 2024. This is the location of Shackleton’s...
Shackleton’s epic 1916 rescue mission, sailing 800 miles in a lifeboat from Elephant Island in Antarctica to seek help for his stranded crew, reached...
We visited Elephant Island yesterday for a zodiac cruise around the bay at Point Wild, the location of the final rescue of Shackleton’s team back...
A Bald Eagle perched on an iceberg which was floating in front of the face of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park on September...
Glacial ice really is amazingly blue. This small iceberg was floating in front of the face of the South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska during our September visit...
The face of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park. Find all my Alaska and British Columbia images at https://davewilson.smugmug.com/Travel/Alaska-BC-September-2023/Places-Things/.
A zodiac cruises in front of the face of South Sawyer Glacier in south eastern Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord in an area known as Ford’s Terror Wilderness....
South Sawyer Glacier ends with a 1500 foot wall of blue ice slowly breaking up into the Tracy Arm Fjord in south eastern Alaska. The scale of the feature...
