We saw a huge diversity in the shapes and textures of icebergs on the trip. This one, spotted as we left Cooper Bay in South Georgia, had likely toppled...
I’ll stick with the zodiac theme today with this image taken at Cape Tuxen on the Antarctic mainland. This was one of the most breathtaking views...
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 spotted this Gentoo penguin struggling to get onto a grounded iceberg in a bay at Petermann Island, Antarctica during a zodiac cruise on December 31st,...
The big Antarctic adventure is almost over, unfortunately. Our journey back to Ushuaia has been fine so far with the Drake Passage proving less daunting...
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...
This will be the last of the Texas winter storm photos for now. The countryside around here is covered in Mountain Juniper trees like this one. They are known...
A Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) sits in a snow- and ice-covered mountain juniper tree during the week long winter storm that hit Texas in February...
This week’s posting schedule was rather disrupted by the historic winter storm that hit Texas last weekend. Things started going south for us on Sunday...
It’s cold here in Texas this week (as you may have heard). This was taken after the freezing rain but before the snowfall started on Sunday and shows...
As Austin grinds to a halt in the grasp of “Icepocalypse 2018” (which means that the temperatures have dipped slightly below freezing and there...
Here’s another image from my walk around Lanark Cemetery during my trip back to Scotland during Thanksgiving Week. The frost was thick that morning...
A view of Lanark Loch in Scotland taken on a cold, frosty, November morning.
I made it safely back to Scotland and found a rather more wintry climate than I had left in Austin. Temperatures are hovering below freezing and everything...
